Default avatar

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Having no avatar at all is lame, there should be a placeholder (which is the default avatar) with some transparency to give it that feeling.

Why? That is just an empty statement, with no reasoning whatsoever.
My reason for why I dislike default avatars is that it takes up 120 pixels of vertical space for no good reason, newer people are also more likely to post shorter posts and have no signatures which makes it more likely that the avatar will increase the length of their post.
I can recognize the avatar frequenting members based on the color scheme, outlines etc. of it faster than I can read their name, but the same purpose does not exist with a default avatar since multiple users will share it.

If someone doesn't like the default avatar for whatever reason they can change it. And if they don't want any avatar at all then use a png with full transparency.

I do not like it. I cannot change other peoples avatars.

Btw, the default avatar only takes the space of 1 image (14KB compressed), it is not copied for new users or anything like that...

I was referring to vertical screen space, not bytes.

The reason I do not like the current default avatar is because there is nothing LF2 about it and looks horrible in this theme. (which reminds me the template I did looks bad on the white theme that nobody uses )

Having no default avatar solves this just as well, for any template.