Newbie are wearing avatar in their accounts - page 2.

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Quote from: Lida93 on April 26, 2023, 07:18:22 AM

Quote from: OmegaStarScream on April 26, 2023, 04:25:11 AM

As you can see, these accounts were created a very long time ago. Back then, newbies were able to wear avatars.

Just a little bit curious about this. So does that mean that since these accounts already had avatars on before the introduction of the sig. and avatar rule that the rule doesn't apply or affect their ranks already having avatar on before it's introduction. Or the forum is only waiting when the account owners must have removed their avatar themselves then can't put it on again, not untill they rise to the appropriate ranks to be able to put on avatar ?
Just asking to know!!

As you can see, all of the accounts mentioned by the OP are inactive. Only one of them was active after the merit system was implemented, but the rest were not active for long, which means that their avatars may have been on before the regulation for ranks below full member to wear avatar was implemented.

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From all the members you have linked up there the last one @ericools was active in 2020 and all others were active way before that time but there is similarity between all of them that they have created account in year 2011 when there were no such restrictions to the newbie account so they must have updated Avatar at that time.The restrictions were added later on to newbie account by @theymos to prevent lot of things as forum witnessed lot of changes.

But as they were already wearing the Avatars even after merit system implementation it was not removed but newly created accounts faced that restrictions.You would not find any account as newbie wearing avatar or posting images (leaving copper membership aside) after the system implementation by @theymos but they all are from past instances and you can't delete the existing one's.

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Quote from: OmegaStarScream on April 26, 2023, 04:25:11 AM

As you can see, these accounts were created a very long time ago. Back then, newbies were able to wear avatars.

Forum policies for avatars changed a few times.

Bitcointalk's important historic changes

There are three times as I knew.

Avatar changes

After avatars were disabled for newbies, there are glitches which make old-era newbies are grandfather and can wear avatars if they don't take theirs off. Same is for animated avatars that were detected and disabled years ago. Nowadays, we can see some users wear animated avatars.

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Quote from: OmegaStarScream on April 26, 2023, 04:25:11 AM

As you can see, these accounts were created a very long time ago. Back then, newbies were able to wear avatars.

SMF or small machine forum is the software forum that we are using, by default even a newly created account can upload an avatar he can choose from the gallery or upload his own until Theymos customized the forum, which you need to rank so you can upload your own image.

This is a default forum profile area of SMF software.

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Quote from: Lida93 on April 26, 2023, 07:18:22 AM

Just a little bit curious about this. So does that mean that since these accounts already had avatars on before the introduction of the sig. and avatar rule that the rule doesn't apply or affect their ranks already having avatar on before it's introduction. Or the forum is only waiting when the account owners must have removed their avatar themselves then can't put it on again, not untill they rise to the appropriate ranks to be able to put on avatar ?
Just asking to know!!

Quote from: Suzume on April 26, 2023, 06:11:08 AM

All the old Id's that are currently active will get all the benefits that were available 5 years ago??

Not anymore, if they've wore avatar before the update that newbies can no longer wear avatar and they've never changed or removed it then it stays there.
But then, even if they're old accounts and try to do that today, the feature of wearing avatar is no longer available to all of them. Those that you've seen have wore it and never changed/removed their avatar long time ago and that why it stays there.

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Quote from: OmegaStarScream on April 26, 2023, 04:25:11 AM

As you can see, these accounts were created a very long time ago. Back then, newbies were able to wear avatars.

Just a little bit curious about this. So does that mean that since these accounts already had avatars on before the introduction of the sig. and avatar rule that the rule doesn't apply or affect their ranks already having avatar on before it's introduction. Or the forum is only waiting when the account owners must have removed their avatar themselves then can't put it on again, not untill they rise to the appropriate ranks to be able to put on avatar ?
Just asking to know!!

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Quote from: Suzume on April 26, 2023, 06:11:08 AM

All Id's which have been created before the introduction of merit system. All the old Id's that are currently active will get all the benefits that were available 5 years ago??

For the merit system and new rank features, yes, this includes the new avatar features, ^{(well, it's old already actually)} which is only for full members above.

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Quote from: PX-Z on April 26, 2023, 04:43:41 AM

No, it's way back then before merit system got added.

All Id's which have been created before the introduction of merit system. All the old Id's that are currently active will get all the benefits that were available 5 years ago??

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Quote from: Plaguedeath on April 26, 2023, 04:25:49 AM

It's because they're an old newbie, AFAIK back in the days a newbie can wear an avatar, before a big change when merit requirement implemented in this forum.

No, it's way back then before merit system got added. Merit system is just about 5 years old. The wearing of avatar to newbies were change sometime when the forum was hacked, and the loophole when uploading an avatar were used^[1], or maybe way older than the hack incident.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1nmdq4/bitcointalk_hacked

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It's because they're an old newbie, AFAIK back in the days a newbie can wear an avatar, before a big change when merit requirement implemented in this forum.

In addition you can see some users are still wearing an animated avatar, but now you can't. Even you're using GIF format image as your avatar, it will not be animated and the forum only show the first frame.

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As you can see, these accounts were created a very long time ago. Back then, newbies were able to wear avatars.

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Hello everyone,,
The basic rules of forum us you have to be full member to use avatar in your profile. But I've seen some accounts are useing avatar and their rank is newbie, jr.member, and member. we cannot use avatar in low rank profiles .. But I saw those accounts is wearing avatar in there profile....

Name of accounts.
1. hook Rank : Newbie Total earned merit : 0 Trust : ( +0 / =0 / -0)

2. coinonymous Rank : Newbie
Total earned merit : 0 Trust: ( +0 /=0 /-0)

3. Paperweight Rank : Jr.Member Total earned merit : 38 Trust: (+0 /=0 /-0)

4. Houdini Rank: Member Total earned merit: 10 Trust: (+0 /=0 /-0)

5. ericools Rank: Member Total earned merit: 10 Trust : (+0 /=0 /-0)

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