Re: Default avatar suggestions

Posted by GregChapman on
URL: https://support.nabble.com/Default-avatar-suggestions-tp7600558p7600798.html

I guess you run a forum where gender is not an issue, or where it is the norm for users to add their own, so the default avatar matters far less.

Currently, I feel it is legitimate to describe Nabble's software as institutionally sexist.

While I don't think the original avatar is appealing in the slightest, I don't think it can be  claimed to be either gender or culturally specific and that has be be important when the software has universal application..

That's why my preferred option would be for Nabble to return to the original because it is so non-specific, but an alternative would be to offer a small library of standard avatars for users to pick, in much the same way as it provides a set of smilies, with the current option of uploading one's own image.