People and userpics

[pne]

Some users I see commenting often in communities I read I associate fairly closely with their userpics.

When they change their username, I'll think of the old one whenever I see their icon (e.g. madcaptenor will probably always be "izzycat" to me, at least as long as the default userpic stays the same), and if they change their default userpic, I'll be a tad sad whenever I see them post but not with "their" pic.

...which makes me wonder whether people are like that with me, too. I can certainly imagine that there are people who associate "pne" with my Martin userpic, since that was the first userpic I ever uploaded, it's been my default nearly all the time, and I post (at least comments) with other userpics comparatively rarely.

Comments

[nyssa.livejournal.com]

I definitely associate some people with their icons. I mean, I associate you with the Martin one. The few times I've seen you post under a different icon, I get confused.

I change my default icon to match my LJ layout, and I very rarely use it anywhere else on the site (unless I just need to post the comment right now and don't feel I have the time to pick another one). So I guess I probably end up not being associated with an icon to most people.

(Also, LJ is being very uncooperative and taking forever to post comments. :( What's with that?)

[pne.livejournal.com]

I change my default icon to match my LJ layout

Hee -- that reminds me of how I'm always a bit amused when someone proudly exclaims that they have a new layout, because I nearly never see people's layouts -- I read their entries through my friends page rather than through their journal, and my friends page shows comment links with ?style=mine so I don't even see comment pages in their journal style.

So I guess I probably end up not being associated with an icon to most people.

Yeah -- but it does work a little the other way around; there are a couple of your userpics that I associate with you when I see them (e.g. the "notes" one and the "gloomy" one).

[nyssa.livejournal.com]

Argh, I always hate when peoples' layouts take over the comment page too, mostly because then I get really confused. I much prefer when comment pages are in the default LJ layout.

Unfortunately, due to the high number of icons I'm beginning to amass, and the relatively little care with which I choose my icons each time I comment, certain icons get neglected a lot, including the notes one. I don't think I've used that one in ages. The Gloomy one, however, gets used relatively often due to the fact that it is just above my Goomba one (which is the icon that gets selected when I simply hit "page down" after highlighting my first icon in the dropdown menu).

[pne.livejournal.com]

Argh, I always hate when peoples' layouts take over the comment page too,

Same. When custom comment pages started coming out was about the time where I added ?style=mine to the links on my friends page. I'm used to seeing comment pages in site scheme.

mostly because then I get really confused.

I sometimes get confused, too, especially if they've given their "read comments" and "post comments" link cutesy names.

Also, some of those pages I find very hard to read because of the fonts and/or colours the owner chose.

Plus the threading is sometimes hard to follow (who replied to whom) -- I'm used to the way things work with site-scheme comment pages, so if comments are arranged in novel and different ways it makes it harder for me to read.

Finally, some people have very narrow comment pages, which works badly once you've got several levels of nested comments.

I'm glad there's ?style=mine. If people want to read my comment pages in their journal layout, that's fine with me, too. Let everyone use what they're familiar with.

certain icons get neglected a lot, including the notes one. I don't think I've used that one in ages.

I think I associate that one with you because it was your default for a while.

[nyssa.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the notes icon was my default for about a year and a half, when I had the pink and blue scheme. This is my default now.

My housemate has a Livejournal, and her comments page is really hard for me to understand. It nests them, yeah, but it indents (the bar with the username and icon) from the right, and not the left. I've been so trained to look for the threading on the left that I keep getting really confused when comments like, "Yes, I agree!" are posted apparently unprovoked. Very confusing.

I'd like to think that my Livejournal layout, if I were to customise the comments pages, would be clear enough to still use. ;) I try to keep my colour schemes and fonts very simple.