I wonder if part of this whole internet hostility thing is because there's no native "Hi, I'm _________" part of interactions where we can make snap judgments on people's appearances, voices, etc. in addition to what they say. Or let's take an example from the Western model of food production. Westerners (yeah, I mostly mean white people . . . so?) generally do not give a fuck about animals without faces. On styrofoam and shrink-wrapped? "Mmm, chicken!" With feathers, clucking and shitting? "Oh my god, I feel so close to my roots. Animals are adorable!" No face? Whatever. Face? "Let's be friends!" When really everything is food AND friends (potentially).
You mean that we should have an image/photo with our username? Cause that's never going to fly :-) Though it would be hilarious if mk came back and we had coded it up and implemented it. He would literally turn off Hubski. But, we can all put images in our profiles, it's just that nobody does. Well, almost nobody: 