Hm, didn't even think of that, but that's a much better idea.
Just replace text containing URLs?
What if we display a small web page instead of someone's name. Then you can embed all your favorite animated gifs and flash animations and have them endlessly looping above your head. Plus you can use the zoom feature in the web browser to make it bigger.
I just realized, Trader's avatar is just like what I think of v11, just starting with the shock, and working backwards.
Meh. What we really need is for the shape names to have multiline support with formatting. The first line would be reserved exclusively for the real name, the second line could be whatever else, and you could format it like normal with multiple colors, fonts, font sizes, etc. That'd be kickass.
Yeah, people thought it was funny to "hack" the game by making stuffty impersonation scripts and the like.
This would be pretty neat actually