Why is the exclamation mark suddenly the default avatar? how dumb is that?

I would assume that Y!A got tired of the gray face default avatar and thought a little variety would be a good thing.

To create an avatar:

Click "My Activity" at top of page

Select "Edit My Preferences"

Click "Update photo or avatar"

Follow instructions to select your photo/avatar

Click "Submit" on bottom of original page when done

To make a carton avatar:

http://avatar.yahoo.com/

Make sure your pulse profile is not hidden.

:o)

To create/change a Yahoo cartoon avatar go here:

http://avatars.yahoo.com/

Then go to: http://answers.yahoo.com/my/my_edit , click "use my yahoo avatar" -> scroll down -> click "preview" and then "ok".

For all other picture avatars:

http://profiles.yahoo.com/ - go here to create a profile -> click "change photo" -> click "add photo" -> select the picture you want from your harddrive -> click "save". Now click "use selected photo", done.

Note: the pic has to be a .jpg or .png file, it must be smaller than 5 MB, and it also has to be square.