They help with recognition of people and social aspects, but it’s not clear that either of those things are things we want here. I mean, one of the preference options here is to turn names off.
I think there’s a potential that this would be a positive change, but there needs to be a lot of groundwork establishing that direction as positive.
I think that the lack of avatars helps me treat a person’s argument independently from that person, reducing any tendency toward ad hominen responses. I suspect that this is true for others on the site as well.
They help with recognition of people and social aspects, but it’s not clear that either of those things are things we want here.
There could be configuration options for those that share your sentiments—but I think thumbnail images should be on by default—especially when viewing user pages.
They help with recognition of people and social aspects, but it’s not clear that either of those things are things we want here. I mean, one of the preference options here is to turn names off.
I think there’s a potential that this would be a positive change, but there needs to be a lot of groundwork establishing that direction as positive.
I think that the lack of avatars helps me treat a person’s argument independently from that person, reducing any tendency toward ad hominen responses. I suspect that this is true for others on the site as well.
Concur.
There could be configuration options for those that share your sentiments—but I think thumbnail images should be on by default—especially when viewing user pages.