# 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:** ![clayg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/clayg/32/181131_2.png) [@clayg](https://meta.discourse.org/u/clayg)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2022, 2:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-are-best-practices-for-encouraging-enforcing-profile-pics/112262/13 "2022-01-22T02:30:27Z")

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We’re about to launch our Discourse site. My users are used to a listserv platform, and I have configured the email settings so that they can reply by email and start new posts by email.

But related to profile pics, the thing I don’t understand is why sometimes users receive an email that shows the sender’s profile pic along with a nicely formatted “Visit topic” link (formatted like a button), but other times a new message comes in a less pretty way – no profile pic and the “Visit topic” is a simple hyperlink.

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