Thread:Talk:Flow/Avatars/reply

I have no issue with avatars. Avatars are graphical representations of how a person feels about themselves. I'm a member on many forums that use them, and I have never seen it as an issue. The Stack Exchange networks are a fairly well known non-social media that uses avatars. All of the social media sites allow this. My concern and proposal on the matter is this: If the avatars for people are hosted remotely, like how the avatars shown on the SE networks use Gravatar to host the avatar then that would probably be fine. If the WMF site had to hold them, it opens the door to all kinds of copyrighted images and other legal concerns that I would be opposed to having to have a group of users to "play God" and decide which ones are fair and good and which ones aren't.