# Requiring users to set a custom avatar before posting
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/requiring-users-to-set-a-custom-avatar-before-posting/33364
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [9월 16, 2015, 6:01오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/requiring-users-to-set-a-custom-avatar-before-posting/33364 "2015-09-16T18:01:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@pieterhoogenboom](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pieterhoogenboom)
#### Post date: [9월 16, 2015, 6:01오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/requiring-users-to-set-a-custom-avatar-before-posting/33364/1 "2015-09-16T18:01:16Z")
Hey everyone. This seems like a nice feature I’d love.
I have 3,000+ users on [https://nomadforum.io](https://nomadforum.io), but many of them have never set a profile pic. And it just makes it look better if they would. I now send them a welcome message like
“I see you haven’t set a profile pic yet, please do it now :)”
But it’d be even better if I could stop people from posting and alert them to set a pic first.
Obviously this should be optional.
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### Author:  [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)
#### Post date: [9월 16, 2015, 6:38오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/requiring-users-to-set-a-custom-avatar-before-posting/33364/2 "2015-09-16T18:38:26Z")
> [@pieterhoogenboom](#):
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> “I see you haven’t set a profile pic yet, please do it now :)”
How would you feel about
> I see you haven’t set a **custom avatar** yet, please do it now
as a posting prerequisite here?
I have to wonder what the priorities are, discussion or images
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [9월 16, 2015, 8:36오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/requiring-users-to-set-a-custom-avatar-before-posting/33364/3 "2015-09-16T20:36:03Z")
For [https://nomadforum.io/](https://nomadforum.io/) my #1 thing I would recommend fixing before even thinking about this is choosing the correct resolution avatar on the front page (accounting for retina)
You can see my theme for how to do this kind of stuff:
> [@Sam's Simple Theme](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sams-personal-minimal-topic-list-design/23552):
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> discourse2Summary Sam’s Simple Theme creates a “minimal” topic list designeyeglassesPreview [Preview on Discourse Theme Creator](https://discourse.theme-creator.io/theme/Discourse/sams-simple-theme)hammer_and_wrenchRepository Link [https://github.com/discourse/discourse-simple-theme](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-simple-theme)open_bookNew to Discourse Themes? [Beginner’s guide to using Discourse Themes](https://meta.discourse.org/t/beginners-guide-to-using-discourse-themes/91966) Install this theme Features I have been thinking about this a lot, and decided to take a shot at a “minimal” front page customisation. To select this theme here on Meta he…
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### Author:  [@pieterhoogenboom](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pieterhoogenboom)
#### Post date: [9월 17, 2015, 12:44오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/requiring-users-to-set-a-custom-avatar-before-posting/33364/4 "2015-09-17T00:44:31Z")
Ah nice!
I have no idea how to customize Discourse though, I’ve Googled a lot but I couldn’t find newbie-friendly tutorials to change the templates (handlebars?). So all customization now is through on-load JS, not great but I don’t know another way.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [9월 17, 2015, 1:09오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/requiring-users-to-set-a-custom-avatar-before-posting/33364/5 "2015-09-17T01:09:09Z")
My theme is a tutorial of sorts, if you read through the site customization you will see what needs changing.
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### Author:  [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)
#### Post date: [9월 17, 2015, 1:36오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/requiring-users-to-set-a-custom-avatar-before-posting/33364/6 "2015-09-17T01:36:32Z")
If you convert your existing customization to one like @sam details in his topic, you won’t get that pop-in effect when you visit the topic list.
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### Author:  [@gdpelican](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gdpelican)
#### Post date: [9월 18, 2015, 9:40오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/requiring-users-to-set-a-custom-avatar-before-posting/33364/7 "2015-09-18T09:40:14Z")
@pieterhoogenboom Let’s chat; I could probably be convinced to take this on for a nominal sum or nomad brownie points or something.
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### Author:  [@chapoi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chapoi)
#### Post date: [12월 4, 2025, 11:37오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/requiring-users-to-set-a-custom-avatar-before-posting/33364/8 "2025-12-04T11:37:00Z")