# What are best practices for encouraging / enforcing profile pics?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-are-best-practices-for-encouraging-enforcing-profile-pics/112262>\
**Category:** Community Building\
**Created:** [March 21, 2019, 3:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-are-best-practices-for-encouraging-enforcing-profile-pics/112262 "2019-03-21T15:39:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2021, 11:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-are-best-practices-for-encouraging-enforcing-profile-pics/112262/11 "2021-07-18T23:21:27Z")

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A way to do it without a plugin would be to use some external authentication database and have it require an avatar to create an account.

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