Because there are no default avatars on my board. Only custom avatars.
My Guild plays on EverQuest. Each member's avatar is a pic of their main character. If I set them in the standard directory, anyone could use anyone else's avatar.
Although they could still do that now, by typing in another person's member number(.jpg)...
I just thought this would be an easier way for those of us who allow custom avatars and host them on our sites.
Looking forward to seeing what you come up with Idle... I spent more time looking at the routines and though I've figured out how to edit the templates in UBB pretty well, I'm still not understanding all the routines to make my own hacks... yet.
It's a learning process.
~Z