My default icon has remained unchanged for just about my entire stay here on lj. It's from one of the first icon batches I made, and depicts Faith's nightmare scenes in This Year's Girl. The reasons for keeping it are: 1. I'm somewhat habitual. 2. Also holding on to it due to emotional attachment(as well as some of my other not so pretty cons. heh). 3. I doubt anyone else would ever snag my default, and I like having that one to myself.
I rarely use it for actual posts though.
As for judging others by their userpics, I go more by content, not quality(though when I see icons where their aspect ration is all screwed up, I wanna shake somebody). If someone's userpics are all about the hot boys or all about the hot girls, I find it unlikely that we'll be interested in the same things. If they have icons with a great sense of humor, or a good variation when it comes to characters/fandoms/stock, that's always a plus in my book. Some also have quotes or such in their icon descriptions, those I always find interesting. There's a lot of personality in people's userpics :)
yay for waxing on about icons \o/
1. I'm somewhat habitual.
2. Also holding on to it due to emotional attachment(as well as some of my other not so pretty cons. heh).
3. I doubt anyone else would ever snag my default, and I like having that one to myself.
I rarely use it for actual posts though.
As for judging others by their userpics, I go more by content, not quality(though when I see icons where their aspect ration is all screwed up, I wanna shake somebody). If someone's userpics are all about the hot boys or all about the hot girls, I find it unlikely that we'll be interested in the same things. If they have icons with a great sense of humor, or a good variation when it comes to characters/fandoms/stock, that's always a plus in my book. Some also have quotes or such in their icon descriptions, those I always find interesting. There's a lot of personality in people's userpics :)