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Orange_of_Doom posted...

For what it's worth, I might've been the first one to exploit it to give SBAllen his first avatar of a Legend of the Galactic Heroes character, but tons of other people found it a few days later. I wanted to show some friends that I figured it out and might as well go after the most high profile proof I could.

Whoever was the one replacing porn with people's avatars was a riot. That was when I was still a software development noob (I was still in college) and didn't know much about anything.

Waluigi1 posted...

GameFAQs has avatars?? I legitimately didn't realize. Do they show beside people's names on desktop? I haven't been on GFs on desktop in...uh, I don't remember when I got my first smartphone.

No. AFAIK Devin was always too conservative with allowing avatars in posts. That's a user script that I made myself, but there's a wonderful one that another user wrote many years ago that should still be usable now:
https://openuserjs.org/scripts/melon/GameFAQs_Show_Icon

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/9/994cdc84.png

Epicness2012 posted...

Talk about a ripple effect.

There's no doubt in my mind that avatars eventually led to the downfall of CE and therefore gamefaqs.gamespot.com as whole.

Ergo, Judgmeni killed GameFAQs.

Every time bby.

Keep in mind I am only posting all of this now because my friend told me CE was shutting down and Poltiics discussion was now banned everywhere else. Nice authoritarian hellhole and I'm sure Error is delighted at the proposed changes.

DoesntMatter posted...

how so?

In the early 2010s I created an avatars user script which turned into a browser extension which results in me getting pissed off after two users were arguing with me over PM and I had enough and lashed out at one of them unfairly updating the extension's backend to inject hate speech into the extensions settings. As a result, I was banned for 6 months, I willingly shut the browser extension was shut down and demand lead to the feature being added to the site. At the end of its life over 2000 people had avatars and even more were using certain other features of the extension such as rotating signatures and quick account switching.

Also at the end both Devin and Allen used it (or people exploited the REST API and injected avatars into their avatars I don't know).
Also at one point I captured everyone's IP addresses and did not do anything with them.
Very fun stuff. I'm a software architect at a cybersecurity company now creating enterprise endpoint protection software.

Also I consider myself woke now.
Friends from GameFAQs changed me into the person I am today.
You're all welcome.

GameFAQs has had avatar support without my addon for over a decade now...

Only site I know that sill has them.

This thread is a great example of why I don't post here anymore.

https://www.fandom.com/fandom-stars/

Do you like stealing other people's content and reposing it on Fandom? I sure do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNdsm9Gz32U

If you guys didn't realize I found better things than to post on this board.

Needed to check the popularity of a show on the anime board so I decided to create this thread.