It's funny....I can follow those with ever changing avatars better than the given forum ones. I guess it's because they're all different, whereas the forum standard ones are all the same so individuals details get mixed up in my mind!
And I wasn't necessarily referring to the new people. I understand that when you first join you don't necessarily think of getting an avatar. But......for those newer members who do jump on the individual avatar bandwagon, I most definitely remember their stories and details from the beginning. Like Pinkcake for example....she hasn't been here all that long, but she sticks out in my mind because I have a unique avatar to associate with her story. There are a few other newer members who are the same, whereas there are other older members whom I couldn't tell you anything about simply because my mind jumbles their stories up due to them having the same avatar.
Again, I didn't mean to offend anyone, rather I wanted to just say that the avatars do in fact make it easier for some of us to remember the things that other people say. I know not everyone stores info in their minds in the same way that I do, nor does everyone want a unique avatar.