>>2195225from the feedback page:
"If the picture is somehow directly relevant to the discussion at hand, then no. However, if you are posting pictures of your game character with every post, even when it is not relevant, and are attempting to emote with, or post as if you are speaking through it with it, then yes."
here's another definition if that wasn't enough
"An avatar is a repetitive image or set of images that a user persistently attaches to their posts in an effort to uniquely identify themselves. Typically avatar users will have a folder full of images of a particular animated character with different poses and facial expressions, and they will choose images from this folder as a way of emoting their posts. In effect, they are attempting to post as if they were speaking as the character. If you are persistently attaching unrelated images of a particular character to your posts in an effort to uniquely identify yourself and roleplay as a character, then you are avataring.
This immediately lowers the level of discourse, and derails the thread to be about the avatar user instead of about the topic of discussion. This form of attention-whoring is not welcome on 4chan. If you absolutely must be uniquely identified, you can make use of the name field."
