# 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:** ![jmeler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jmeler/32/247226_2.png) [@jmeler](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jmeler)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2022, 9:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-are-best-practices-for-encouraging-enforcing-profile-pics/112262/16 "2022-01-22T21:26:56Z")

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I tell them that we are human and we like to see (or intuit) who we are talking to. And I suggest photos of real users in my community as exemple in case you don’t want to put a photo of your face. Partial photos, with effects or caricatures… whatever but human.

 ![profile_pic](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/0/1/015334bbeab299dab442c3d5260d1881fec69edc.jpeg)

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