I’m strongly in favour. I don’t think keeping the forum more impersonal will improve the rationality of users (or very weakly if so). But I do think it’ll make me (N=1) more likely to want to interact with it. I would use a non-photo image to display my personality.
The largest consideration against, I think, is that it may make existing users feel like this is an ickier place, and they may enjoy the impersonal feel of it.
I’m strongly in favour. I don’t think keeping the forum more impersonal will improve the rationality of users (or very weakly if so). But I do think it’ll make me (N=1) more likely to want to interact with it. I would use a non-photo image to display my personality.
The largest consideration against, I think, is that it may make existing users feel like this is an ickier place, and they may enjoy the impersonal feel of it.