ZBrush Central admin this is a polite request to enable avatars in the ZBrush forums!!!
I think it’d be cool to make our own avatars (profile pics for those who don’t know) in ZBrush and use them right here!
PL :o EEEEAAAAASSSSSE!!! 
See:
This is my old one, I’d love people to see it! Who else would like to see avatars?
I like avatars…
Definitely, that would be fun!
o ya I so agree. AVATARS!!!
Agree too. Although, in the User Options I can see “Profile Picture”. What is that??
Also, under “Edit Profile”, there is something called “ubb displayname”. What is that?
keep this tread on top if you want it to be looked at.
Don’t make me make a picket sign!!
AVATARS!
I’m sorry to say, I enjoy the unpolluted visual atmosphere of these boards. The focus should be on the artwork, without any competing visual noise from garish sigs or avatars.
This is one of the cleanest, uncluttered sites of it’s kind without things poppin up in your face, garrish gifs pootin and flashin everywhere and little things hitting each other…other sites take longer to load each page cause the same zhit and ads…ads…ads have to load each time before the main content comes on!..avatars…hope not.
It’s good to hear both sides of the argument. I actually didn’t think of the ‘clutter’ that can come of avatars.
But I do tend to think that on more Arty sites, such as this, you get better and more creative avatars, rather than just the tacky avatars of most other sites.
Conceptart.org is a good example. the professionalism is higher and as such so are the avatars.
People here seem far more responsible (purely from the lack of swearing) and I think the avatars will follow suit.
I too must say I’ve always enjoyed the lack of Avatars on ZCentral. It really keeps the focus on the art itself, and saves space in the threads.
Just my opinion ofcourse. 
Yeah, you know what. I’m starting to regret starting this thread. I just came from another forum site and my eyes are hurting from flashing gif avatars and bright colours.
By the way Plakkie, did you get my PM?
We considered both sides of this argument a long time ago. In addition to the “cons” that some of you have already listed above, there’s the matter of copyright violations. A significant number of avatars that people post tend to be of copyrighted materials. We have no wish to become “avatar police”.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts (on both sides of the issue)! No changes are planned at this time, however.
Thank God. ZBC has enough traffic slowing down page loads as it is.
Yeah, I feel kinda silly shouting off about it now. Now I know all the reasons not to have avatars, they far outway reasons to have 'em.
Please ignore this poor ranting fool
I was wrong on this one.
Don’t feel silly: it’s good to ask questions and challenge conventions! It’s also great if someone is able to change views in the light of reasonable arguments. 
Not everyone can do this, alas…
Found your PM and wrote an answer. 
Ya I would not mind seeing avatars but ya I would not want to police them either. If there was so way of saying yes you can have avatars but only if you make them in Zbrush now that would be cool. Ok now maybe that blue man monster thing would make a poor choice for a avatar his big $%W#$%# in the morning as I browse the Zbrush forums might be a little hard to explain at work when I’m showing off some good examples of Zbrush models to the classroom.
I wont hunt the link down, if you seen the model you know which one I’m talking about;)
Looks like I got my wish granted after all these years! Thank you!
Just got to figure out how to upload my avatar… erm…
There is
As of October 19, 2011 your bottom row icon will now also appear next to all of your ZBC posts, beneath your member name! This means that the exposure from sharing your artwork on ZBC will continue long after the bottom row icon has disappeared from the forum’s main page.
insted of avatars.
yes I would like to be enlightened how this works - I see avatars next to some user’s names… it seems like those are the user gallery images but others don’t have any avatar next to their name though they do have a gallery full of pics… I’m confused 