If I could expand on this
(I was going to post this soon)
the ubb.classic built avatars into the member profiles. thru the profile, A member could view all the available profiles to him in a popup window which showed all avatars in the /avatars/ directory, select the one he liked and it would populate the fields for him. Normal members could not specify their own url to an avatar, they have to pick from the list
Moderators and admins could pick from the avatars in /avatars/ as well as in /avatars/custom/ directories, or use an external avatar by supplying the URL
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This prevented any member from using offensive avatars (which is a real concern on my coppa site) and the custom avatars for moderators/admins was an addditional benefit to them for their volunteer work.
Also, as most of my mebers are kids, they arent real good at figuring out how to add their pic to their profile in ubbt6.1b1. I see many pics with a url of file///c:/my_docs/etc.. This combined with members trying to use pics from geocities and other sites that dont allow it are causing a lot of broken images to be displayed, I hate that!
