Do I have to be a paying member to have an avatar?

[skywise]

Do I have to be a paying member to have an avatar? If not, I'm confused as to how to enable one from my user cp.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Avatars are activated for Premium members - https://www.physicsforums.com/subscriptions.php

 

[skywise]

That's what I thought. I was because I see people who don't have the "PF contributer" star beneath their name and yet they have an avatar. Do they just choose to omit the label beneath their name?

 

[Evo]

Users that had a custom avatar prior to the recent PF upgrade still have those avatars even though they are not contributors.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Users that had a custom avatar prior to the recent PF upgrade still have those avatars even though they are not contributors.

Actually that should have been taken care of a couple weeks ago.

 

[Evo]

Actually that should have been taken care of a couple weeks ago.

They're going away too? How do I buy someone else a premium membership?

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Evo I send a request to your email, make sure you reply with the mambers name

 

[Evo]

Thanks Greg! You are the best!

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Thank you! Jimmy it's your lucky day!

 

[BoulderHead]

Greg,
Did you forget then to remove my avatar ?

 

[Kerrie]

boulderhead! welcome back! missed your posting!

 

[BoulderHead]

Hi Kerry !
Thank you very much for the kind words.

 

[Tsu]

Welcome back, BoulderHead! I missed your wandering eye!

 

[BoulderHead]

Hi Tsunami, and thank you for the greeting!
I had another eye being prepared to replace this one with, but PF is very much a different place than I remember and this wandering eye may be removed entirely as I'm not at present a contributor. That horrible flashing red banner proclaiming me a winner has already given me a winning headache, and an urge to wander off to bed beckons. :D

 

[jimmy p]

Thank you! Jimmy it's your lucky day!

If only I had looked on here all the way back then instead of wondering if I was drunk one night and registered. But Evo explained anyway... once again thanks to her, and my tribute in my signature still lives on!