[2018-03-11 edit: Struck out some of my suggestions; issued correction, q.v.]

Quote from: hilariousetc on February 27, 2018, 12:47:28 PM

Quote from: nullius on February 12, 2018, 07:00:53 PM

@theymos

Has the potential been considered of allowing paid accounts to have avatars at low rank, via Copper Membership or otherwise?

This is one of the perks I suggested of one of the potential higher donator ranks. Maybe for a "Silver" one if additional ranks get implemented (though theymos has said there's no current plans to add any new ranks). I don't think it should be included with Copper though and that rank should essentially just be a bare bones one with only minimal benefits (essentially being an automatic whitelisting).

Thanks, hilarious. I do think its reasonable to not include avatars in the current Copper Membership offering. However, I dont see why it would be required to add another paid membership level; that seems to unnecessarily complicate matters. I suggest instead that avatars should be offered as an à la carte add-on for those who already buy Copper.

~~For personal use in an account expected to rank up normally within a few months, as I said in my post:~~

Quote from: nullius on February 12, 2018, 07:00:53 PM

~~When I was a Newbie Copper Member, I myself would have paid extra to sport an avatarsay, the equivalent of $10 more.~~

The business use case could be different. For example, consider a role account which functions as a fully disclosed alt, and mostly just does occasional announcements. Such an account may never reach Full Member statusand it certainly shouldnt play evil games to bump up posts/merit for that purpose! At present, there exists no means at all for such an account to display a simple graphical business logo.

~~For that use case, I think a fair avatar add-on price would be 50100% of the current price of Copper Membership (thus making the total price 150200% of Coppers current price).~~

Such an account would also need simple hyperlinks in its signature, which Copper already semi-unofficially provides. I dont see any reason why such an account could legitimately need a fancy signatureever.