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This isn't a particularly big piece of functionality, but it's an important one, for a few reasons.</p><p>1. We think it's useful for people to be able to represent themselves visually as well as verbally online, and that doing so helps to reveal a bit more of the people behind the words, which in turn encourages community members to treat each other with respect and humanity.</p><p>2. We give all our staff and above-the-line contributors a profile (byline) photo and we know that people increasingly folllow other users of the site, to see what they have to say on the issues of the day. With that in mind, we wanted our community members to have the same kind of recognition and visibility.</p><p>3. It also adds a visual element to the many conversations which take place on this site every day: no more little anonymous grey stick figures!</p><p>Showing your avatar alongside your words in a conversation isn't something which is specific to this site - in fact, if you're a Twitter or Facebook user, or regularly visit other blogs or message boards, you'll probably be used to seeing people's chosen avatars on display whenever they pipe up.</p><p>The majority of our contributors and authors have now uploaded pictures to use as avatars, and we hope you'll do the same in the coming days and weeks. For the moment (and while we get a sense of the ways people might use this functionality) all avatar images will be checked by the moderation team before appearing on the site, so there might be a short delay before your picture shows up.</p><p>You'll notice that our contributors are (mostly) using headshots or other pictures of themselves in their avatars. Of course, we'd love it if the majority of users did likewise - we want to see your faces! - but don't expect everyone to follow suit. Even so, I'd definitely encourage you to choose an image which will represent you well in our community: if not your grinning mugshot, then something which reveals something else about your background, passions or perspectives.</p><p>We've prepared answers to some of the questions we think people will be asking about this functionality, all of which can be read on our extensive <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20091011131030/http://www.guardian.co.uk/community-faqs">community FAQs</a>. But here are a few to start off with:</p><h2>How do I upload an avatar picture?</h2><p>Click on your username in any conversation you've participated in, or on the "your profile" link at the top of every page on the Guardian site. On the left hand side of the page, underneath your name, there should be a square avatar picture (it may be the default grey one) followed by a link which says "Edit my profile". When you click on this link, you'll be able to select from a range of colourful avatar designs, or upload your own: just follow the instructions on the page. Don't forget to save your profile afterwards.</p><h2>What are the technical specifications of the avatar file?</h2><p>When you upload your image, it's automatically transformed to the different sizes which are used on the website. The main size used is 60x60 pixels square. With this in mind, we suggest that you that you use a JPG, GIF, BMP or PNG image less than 700k or 500x500 pixels in size. Smaller/larger dimensions are OK, but they may not look very good on the site when they've been cropped and shrunk to the appropriate size. 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We won't accept any images which depict children or appear to be imitating another individual, or which otherwise fall foul of our existing community standards governing taste and decency, violence or illegal acts, and incitement or intent to cause offence.</p><h2>Can I use an animated gif?</h2><p>No. They're too distracting on the page.</p><h2>How do I complain about someone else's avatar?</h2><p>If you see an avatar which you think infringes copyright or is otherwise unsuitable, but which may have slipped through, you can alert the moderation team by clicking the "report abuse" link on each user's profile (which you can get to by clicking on their username link). Just tell us what you think the problem is (the more specific the better) and we'll take a look.</p><h2>Why are they so big?</h2><p>The design of the avatars and comment layout is always being reviewed, but for launch, we wanted to make user avatars the same size as the author profile pic at the top of an article page - 60x60 pixels. In addition, we've been slightly constrained by the system we've used to implement this change, and the alternative was having avatar images so small you couldn't tell what was on them. 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