====== Profile Avatar ======

Your profile avatar is a **graphical representation** of your user account. To edit your profile avatar, go to your account settings page, scroll down to "Profile Avatar" section and follow the instructions to:

  * upload an image of your choice, or
  * copy your image from your [[http://gravatar.com/|Gravatar]] account that is linked to your email address

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===== Prohibited Avatars =====

These avatar images are not allowed on ChoiceCheapies:

  * **R or X rated gravatars.** 

ChoiceCheapies allows G and PG rated Gravatars, however Gravatar's rating can not always be correct. If an image is not G or PG rated, then it should not be used as your profile avatar. Images that don't fall into G or PG ratings (R & X) contain such things as harsh profanity, intense violence, nudity, hard drug use, hardcore sexual imagery or extremely disturbing violence. 

  * **Images that mimic buttons and control elements on ChoiceCheapies.**
Gravatars that seek to confuse users are not allowed. Examples: Voting buttons, rep tags, and moderator tags. 

If you think another user's profile avatar is not appropriate, please [[https://www.choicecheapies.co.nz/forum/10041|report it to the moderators]]. Moderators reserve the right to override avatar images with our default image.
  * **Images that mimic or lampoon another member's avatar.**

If your profile avatar has been overridden with a default one, you need to:

  * Go to Gravatar.com to upload a more appropriate image.
  * Notify the moderators that you have made the adjustment.
  * Moderators will then evaluate and lift the overriding flag.