I don't really like avatars, but I'd like subscribers to be able to use them - especially to support subscriptions to fund the extra resources required to show avatars. At the moment I can't restrict avatars based on membership; I can only eliminate external ones altogether (always a good idea IMHO because they often hijack other sites' images) and allow subscribers to upload their own.

Is this possible as a hack or future feature?

Does anyone have an idea or hack or something? I'd pay for a hack...esp. if it worked with 2.1...

You could disable remote url avatars, and then disable avatar uploads to all groups, except the paid members group. But this is just a "turn around", since you would be disabling remote url avatars to paid members as well. But at least they would be able to upload the images to your server.

Anyway, I agree with you that the "allow the use of avatars" option should be a per group setting...

Thanks for the suggestion - I've already done this, but I don't find it fully satisfactory. I don't like avatars at all, but I do like paid members.

Wow. I can't believe it's not! It definitely needs to be.

I have been thinking about implementing a subscription system on my board and that would be one of the things that paying members would get. I just assumed avatars were set per group not globally.

erm you could just delete all the base advatars and then disanabled the use of uploaded ones and url ones and then it wouldent let any advatars.

And how would I let subscribers use avatars then?>