Avatar Question (look in thread)

[Vampirate]

When you chat with someone, especially in game, do you ever kind of associate the avatar the person has with the person them self? Like if someone had a cheery avatar, do you think the person has a welcoming personality?

[Majiffy]

No, but color association from my peripheral is useful. This way I don't always have to reference every posts' user because I've got an idea who it is out of the corner of my eye.

[Iecerint]

Cephrir became more of a butthole after he changed avatars.

[Who]

Look into my avatar. Look deep into my avatar. Let the spirals consume your soul. I am town, yes? Yes I am.

[FakeGod]

I think in Myko's experiment when he posed as a girl with a flower as his avatar, he found that he got lynched much less in games.

[Alchemist21]

When you chat with someone, especially in game, do you ever kind of associate the avatar the person has with the person them self? Like if someone had a cheery avatar, do you think the person has a welcoming personality?

I have a tendency to imagine people as looking like their avatars, even when it would be impossible. It might influence how I interpret their personality, but I'm not sure. Then again, avatars are a reflection of a user's personality anyway.

[Elbirn]

I think in Myko's experiment when he posed as a girl with a flower as his avatar, he found that he got lynched much less in games.

Shucks, I wanted to do that As an experiment. Meh. Is there a thread or anything with his findings?

[Cheery Dog]

I am really a dog.

[SleepyKrew]

People thought I was a girl while I had my Princess Leia avatar. Yes, Gender: Male was on all of my posts (precursor to the much better pronoun setting).

[Nero Cain]

I think in Myko's experiment when he posed as a girl with a flower as his avatar, he found that he got lynched much less in games.

I think I get lynched much less as Dancing Jesus or maybe I'm just a better player now *shrugz*

[Titus]

I think this is true.

I tried changing my avatar though and it lasted all of a day lol. People freaked out.

[notscience]

When you chat with someone, especially in game, do you ever kind of associate the avatar the person has with the person them self? Like if someone had a cheery avatar, do you think the person has a welcoming personality?

My avatars are all girly

so

[saulres]

When you chat with someone, especially in game, do you ever kind of associate the avatar the person has with the person them self? Like if someone had a cheery avatar, do you think the person has a welcoming personality?

In my very first completed game on site a player's avatar (he's changed it since) was so aggressive that I was sure he was scum. I was wrong.

(Of course I'm wrong a lot anyway, regardless of avatar, but in that case I was absolutely driven in my thinking by the avatar screaming at me.)

[pieguyn]

I'm p sure my old avatar (Haruhi holding her hands out while it was snowing) was cursed. GIF and I determined that I got insanely unlucky in every game where I had that avatar.

the weirdest shit happened back then. I was on the losing end of 2 setups, one where scum had a 1-shot poisoner on top of the standard NK and a 9-3-1 setup where the SK had a 1-shot dayvig. <_>

[FakeGod]

I think in Myko's experiment when he posed as a girl with a flower as his avatar, he found that he got lynched much less in games.

Shucks, I wanted to do that As an experiment. Meh. Is there a thread or anything with his findings?

No. It was a private study done years ago, unbeknownst to the general public for obvious reasons.

You could probably do it as well with a secret alt if you think you can post like a female.

[FakeGod]

Actually, you could probably just ISO "Purple Rose" and piece together the results if you're really curious.

[Otolia]

No. It was a private study done years ago, unbeknownst to the general public for obvious reasons.

You could probably do it as well with a secret alt if you think you can post like a female.

Are you suggesting there is such a thing as "female posts" in Mafia ?

[Mikazuki]

I have a tendency to imagine people as looking like their avatars, even when it would be impossible. It might influence how I interpret their personality, but I'm not sure. Then again, avatars are a reflection of a user's personality anyway.

I'm exactly the same! I reckon that avatars mostly affect my first impressions of people.

[Albert B. Rampage]

I think this is true.

I tried changing my avatar though and it lasted all of a day lol. People freaked out.

What did you change it to?

[zMuffinMan]

http://forum.mafiascum.net/viewtopic.ph ... +#p5428003
http://forum.mafiascum.net/viewtopic.ph ... +#p5428056
http://forum.mafiascum.net/viewtopic.ph ... +#p5693090
http://forum.mafiascum.net/viewtopic.ph ... +#p5807875
http://forum.mafiascum.net/viewtopic.ph ... +#p6381904

[Elbirn]

I think in Myko's experiment when he posed as a girl with a flower as his avatar, he found that he got lynched much less in games.

Shucks, I wanted to do that As an experiment. Meh. Is there a thread or anything with his findings?

No. It was a private study done years ago, unbeknownst to the general public for obvious reasons.

You could probably do it as well with a secret alt if you think you can post like a female.

Eh, I mean the answers pretty obvious. List yourself as a "she", put on a super kawaii desu~~ avatar, list age as 18. Never get lynched ever again, successfully buddy everyone when you're scum, everything works. Who wants to kill a pretty girl? Answer: No one. For a posting style all you really need to do is use emoticons, tons of emoticons, emoticons as far as the eye can see. And I mean, shit, I already do that half the time anyway. Me acting like a girl would just be me without my "game face" on.

But yeah, I don't think I'd actually want to do that. I'd just like to see statistics back up my hypothesis. Now if you'll excuse me I'm going to go be paranoid that every lady I ever play mafia with is just a man manipulating my emotions for an advantage.

[mastin2]

It doesn't really affect how I

treat

a person, but yes, I do associate people with their avatars, even when I have seen pictures of them and know exactly what they look like in real life.

Mind you, this association can be broken if the person changes avatars frequently enough that I learn not to, but if the person basically never changes their avatar except on some SERIOUSLY special occasions, then I see them that way. I've always been that way, really--born and raised on the internet, I see avatars as being the "face" of a person and that's one of the reasons I generally don't change my own.

[FakeGod]

No. It was a private study done years ago, unbeknownst to the general public for obvious reasons.

You could probably do it as well with a secret alt if you think you can post like a female.

Are you suggesting there is such a thing as "female posts" in Mafia ?

Posting in a style described by Elbirn in 20 is such an example.

[Vampirate]

Who wants to kill a pretty girl?

My guess is other girls/women.

[Psyche]

Unless I know you well or you change it a lot,
your avatar is what I think of when I think of you.