# Sam's Simple Theme

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/sams-simple-theme/23552>\
**Category:** Theme\
**Tags:** official, sams-simple-theme\
**Created:** [December 31, 2014, 3:20am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sams-simple-theme/23552 "2014-12-31T03:20:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![rumpelsepp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bc79bd/32.png) [@rumpelsepp](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rumpelsepp)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2015, 9:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sams-simple-theme/23552/134 "2015-01-28T09:39:52Z")

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For this purpose we can use sticky posts. Users who actually google your forum (=sites with a lot of information or solutions for common problems) have no idea about who is “official”. Good examples for forums which I visit frequently without even having an account are:

- [https://discuss.atom.io/](https://discuss.atom.io/)
- [http://discourse.ubuntu.com/](http://discourse.ubuntu.com/)
- [https://discuss.howtogeek.com/](https://discuss.howtogeek.com/)

So, if I am trust user level 4 and I trink coffe every day with the staff it’s fine. If I just google the forum the avatars are not quite helpful. After I switched from a bulletin board to discourse **a lot** of my users claimed that it is really confusing. After I went into more detail I found out that it is just too much (maybe redundant) information on the topic list for them.

![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/e/c/ec22fe72dd52580531dcf9d91216cff4d8ba5189.png)

As above. Most people won’t know your avatars (and avatars may change over time) so they will just ignore it.

![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/a/1/a12d25170402406e546b469a72e5989561639f01.png)

May contain useful information 😏 .

![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/a/7/a75a0a55f2a250bba47f96db5eb93e6d77961ca7.png)

I just recognize sam and your avatar. But support and hosting topics also have a support category :).

So in **my** opinion these avatars are just a little bit [clown vomit](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-end-of-clown-vomit-or-simplified-category-styles/24249).

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