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It's become a kind of running joke that when I post something that contains an opinion, the post will be descended upon by trolls that haven't even bothered to find avatars, indicating that their sole purpose on Dtoid is to lurk and give me pageviews as and when required.

Well, the joke has worn thin. Sure, it's funny when you don't have to look at your comments page, but when you scroll down and see this .... THIS;



You lose the will to live.

You have all become this entity to me. A mindless sea of default avatars. It's like reading the opinions of an ant colony. GET AVATARS YOU FUCKPUPPETS!
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you are so sexy when you're angry
Mayhap if you didn't write so much flamebait...

:D
I don't even bother most times to read comments by folks with no avatars. No time to change or update it means I have no time to read what you think, or most likey didn't think and just spewed word vomit all over the screen.
The default avatar should be something funny.

Something similar to the Garry's Mod 'Mingebag'.
Rowr Jimmy.
I'm with Corak. Even if you write something witty or interesting, how am I going to remember you without a visual representation to jog my memory?
My avatar both frightens and arouses me. Wait what?
I second Sadistic.

Ooo, get angry for me, Sterling...
LOL.

It seems you attract the attention of robots Jim.
hahah - get some images, bots
Done!

...Oh, wait, you weren't talking to me...
We should do a "no avatar day" in honor of Jim :)
Alright guys. He's getting mad. Time to stop the duplicate account joke.
The avatarless drones can get pretty annoying. Especially once they start going off on current members because they don't know how things work around here.
I see your getting angry, good sir, may I suggest more of these blogs to alleviate your anger?

Or you know you could always pull a Jay and Silent Bob and beat the living shit out of all the mindless drones up close and personal, just make sure you don't get done for murder. ;)
Bring back Workmeng Avatar week!
Wedge is stalking you.
Imagine how bad it would be if you could set the amount of tracked comments yourself!
That's the spirit Gohangvo!

Knivy I don't know if Nook will let me take down my avatar for a celebration.
Everybody knows your opinion doesn't matter if you don't have an avatar :P
And put a moustache on your avatars too like mine!


...well Ive just been too busy to change my avatar back.
"Psh, all we do is scroll to the bottem of each review, see the number that will never please us then bitch our asses off"

-Signed-

D3 Tr00lZ!!
I. Could Not. Agree. MORE.
Who the fuck is Jim Sterling? Is he new here?
I would almost go as far to say hide the noob comments and only show when you want to see em... but I find some of their comments funny.

Funny in the depressing sort of way. Those sad, little, noob-troll-default-avatar-asshats.
@Rocky
Nook would, but not Cyber Nook from Hell
Tell Niero to make a few dozen different default avatars, and have them assigned at random when someone without an avatar leaves a comment... like a baby, a piece of fresh meat, a fresh fish, Jack Thompson, etc., etc.

I don't know if it could be done, but it would give your comment page a little more variety.
Meat mountain approves
Awesome idea DynamicSheep!Fucking awesome.
Dynamic Sheep is totally on to something. a baby, fish or meat would be perfect
Wow... That's kinda sickening.

Also, your banner is freaking amazing.
Once you have an avatar you can't go back.
Butthurt nerds with a robot for an avatar or butthurt nerds with ___ for an avatar. Makes no difference. Maybe the default avatar should just be text reading "MY OPINION IS INVALID."
I dunno why people are too lazy to get avatars. Really.
Keep your opinions to yourself. Who wants to read angry opinions on the internet. This is the first time I've ever seen any complaints about anything on the internet ever!
i think a single boob would be a nice default avatar for trolls. or how about a troll avatar? hmmmm.
Teta, I am mezmorized.
I'm disappointed that this blog hasn't been flooded by people who switched their avatars back to the default just to be assholes.

Really Destructoid, I thought we were better at impromptu mass hilarity.
Jim, you're popular. Get over yourself.

Also, trolls.
Here here!
Maybe...
I vote that TETA's avatar be made the default...anyone?
just make the default avatar more undesirable...
I agree with Jim and Teta
Wait Jim's popular? Internet trolls need to go back to guarding bridges in the wastelands.

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