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Originally Posted by catsittingstill
But when I'm picking an avatar I do think about how it comes across. I don't use pictures of people who aren't me because that just doesn't feel right to me, for example. But I'll cheerfully use a picture of something that's obviously not me if I feel like it at the time. I try to pick pictures that look friendly and harmless, hoping that if I say something that *could* be taken badly, people will look at my avatar and figure I didn't mean it that way.
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I don't like using human form avatars myself. I prefer using cats. My own, even. But I almost never take a full picture and resize it, I love to photoshop it a bit (actually, the one I have now is one of the purest I've ever used, I only removed some extra cat, though the original was focussed on the eyes and not a lot extra...)