The last thing we want to do is make the thing so damn ugly people replace it with "an image from Google". It needs to be an "oh, I've got an image of Joe Celeb, I'll go upload it" rather than "jesus that's so damn ugly I'll go find any old image to get rid of it".
On 25/09/2007, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 25/09/2007, stevertigo stvrtg@gmail.com wrote:
As a footnote to this conversation, I'd like to point out the aesthetic issues involved in using any standard image; particularly one who's purpose is replacement. Certainly it cannot be pretty, as such would be pleasing and therefore incongruent to the purpose of replacement. The current image takes this into account and is indeed quite ugly, I don't think its particularly ugly enough to make people want to replace it immediately.
Perhaps we can have a contest to produce, within suitable boundaries, the ugliest possible image with the utmost of replaceable qualities.
-steven
No. We accept that the place holder will be there for some time thus it must be something regulars are able to tune out and must not particularly lower our audence experence.
-- geni
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