My avatar has been the same ever since @fraenk's googly eyes contest inspired me to decorate a 20-sided die (d20) and snap the photo here. I finally got around to making a stylized graphic based on that photo in Canva and GIMP, and now I need to decide how I want to use it here. @ryivhnn's signature also inspired me to explore using this as a comment embellishment, too.
The quandary: I still manually curate the intro posts highlighted by @lovesniper, but today I experimented with a boilerplate reply, and it feels a bit off-putting to me. I am averse to seeing or making copy/paste comments. Then again, I often find it difficult to come up with a clever personal comment, too.
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What do you think, is this crass or classy? After trying it out, I'm not convinced I want to keep using this text block. The image and links to the main trio of frontends is probably worth making into a comment template of sorts, though.
It was fun to take another look at my overall online persona. I still use my original HIVE graphics as seen in this post, but they are also probably due for an update with better tools and skills now at my disposal. I'm also thinking about dropping the FreeBitco.in referral. Here for my own consideration more than anything else are the contrasting current template (left) versus what I am considering (right).
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Anyhow, that's probably enough late-night rambling as I try to sort my own thoughts on the topic of templates and boilerplate in light of some new avatar experimentation. Chime in with a comment, and let me know what you think of my design draft and my inner struggle about balancing new user acknowledgement comments and active engagement.