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KoenR94 — Tue, 03 Dec 2013 12:40:25 GMT

It's keeps me wondering so I'll just ask it.

Why do Altenbach and Ranjeet have the same avatar?

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Todd_Lesher — Tue, 03 Dec 2013 12:42:14 GMT

Hero-worship.

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KoenR94 — Tue, 03 Dec 2013 12:44:46 GMT

But who worships who

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Intaris — Tue, 03 Dec 2013 12:49:02 GMT

Read the forums for a while longer and all will be clear.

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crossrulz — Tue, 03 Dec 2013 12:54:52 GMT

@KoenR94 wrote:

But who worships who

Trust me, Altenbach had his avatar well before Ranjeet entered the picture. And I don't think there is anybody here who would worship Ranjeet.

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KoenR94 — Tue, 03 Dec 2013 13:20:27 GMT

Read the forums for a while longer and all will be clear.

Well I'm pretty new

Trust me, Altenbach had his avatar well before Ranjeet entered the picture. And I don't think there is anybody here who would worship Ranjeet.

Pretty offensive, though I guess you are right. Altenbach has a really high authority in this forum and knowledge of labview.

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LV_Pro — Tue, 03 Dec 2013 13:51:30 GMT

Ranjeet's use of the avatar is why Christian's now has his picture attached. If you are new you may not understand that Christian's (Altenbach) is a "Knight of NI" with more than 10,000 posts (actually more than 20,000) and he is also a "LabVIEW Chanpion"

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KoenR94 — Tue, 03 Dec 2013 14:02:26 GMT

Ok this explains a lot! Altenbach changed his own avatar because it got copied... (Pretty sad that someone copies, without permission)?

I know he has more 20k posts thats why I find it rather strange, because ranjeet has 1000 posts too.

I thought they maybe had some kind of friendship, but regardless to say it's the opposite.....

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Todd_Lesher — Tue, 03 Dec 2013 14:06:01 GMT

On the Profile pages, see the Total Messages Posted vs Total Kudos Received.

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Todd_Lesher — Tue, 03 Dec 2013 14:07:54 GMT

@KoenR94 wrote:

I thought they maybe had some kind of friendship, but regardless to say it's the opposite.....

I've never ever seen Altenbach author an unkind post. He will patiently try to help anyone - over and over.

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KoenR94 — Tue, 03 Dec 2013 14:13:09 GMT

I maybe defined my answer wrong.

It's wasn't meant to say Altenbach is unkind.

I know he is kind, otherwise he wouldn't be able to redeem this many kudoes.

Afterall if he wasn't kind then he had way less posts.

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tst — Tue, 03 Dec 2013 14:30:36 GMT

To be fair, while Altenbach used the wizard, it's not actually his avatar, but a stock image which the site lets you select (Altenbach actually had a modified version of the avatar, with a blinking eye, but that wasn't different enough from the standard one to be immediately obvious).

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KoenR94 — Tue, 03 Dec 2013 14:40:58 GMT

I checked and you are right. Maybe too many conclusions were pulled out without more research.

It's just a stock image....

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Norbert_B — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 11:58:35 GMT

Also to add, Ranjeet is learning a lot by posting.... so with his last 1000 posts, i got the impression that he improved technical AND "netiquette"-wise.

Still, room for improvement (for both), but it's getting better!

Norbert

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Mark_Yedinak — Wed, 11 Dec 2013 20:05:51 GMT

@KoenR94 wrote:

Read the forums for a while longer and all will be clear.

Well I'm pretty new

Trust me, Altenbach had his avatar well before Ranjeet entered the picture. And I don't think there is anybody here who would worship Ranjeet.

Pretty offensive, though I guess you are right. Altenbach has a really high authority in this forum and knowledge of labview.

While not the most tactful response if you read the forums enough you will see that while not the most kind it is truthful. Sometimes the truth is unpleasant. But as Norbert mention Ranjeet is improving. That is the wonderful thing about this forum, no matter what level you are at you can always learn something.

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GregFreeman — Wed, 25 Dec 2013 06:19:13 GMT

This question is priceless, made even more humorous by the true desire-to-know from the OP. No fault of the OP and this response isn't poking fun at him at all, but regulars will understand why this question has made me laugh outloud.

In all fairness, we've all been asking ourselves the same thing. I'm somewhat hoping for Dennis to come in and comment on this.

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Jeffrey_Zola — Fri, 27 Dec 2013 18:19:49 GMT

A cursory read of this thread suggests that Ranjeet is an after-market knock-off of Altenbach. Not uncommon in an global economy!

The question for Altenbach is whether he has lost business opportunity as a result of this. Should he have obtained trademark or copyright protection for his avatar? Probably wouldn't have been available if his avatar was a stock image- but the blinking/twinkling eye modification, maybe!

(Oy. What did the three years I spend working at an Intellectual Property law firm do to me? I am not a lawyer, nor did I play one on TV. I am, however, a registered Patent Agent in the US, should Altenbach or anyone else on the forum wish to seek patent protection for any inventions!)

@tst wrote:

To be fair, while Altenbach used the wizard, it's not actually his avatar, but a stock image which the site lets you select (Altenbach actually had a modified version of the avatar, with a blinking eye, but that wasn't different enough from the standard one to be immediately obvious).