>>414960293
I'm not the autist who is having a meltdown right now, but I don't believe that interpretation of avatarfagging is entirely accurate. Avatarfagging is just consistently attaching pictures of the same character to your posts. I distinctly remember a poster who was prolific on /a/ many years ago who had a billion reaction images of Konata that he attached to every single one of his posts, and thus everybody could tell when a post was from him. He would also get pissed when other people used his images. He did not pretend to be or RP as Konata. Eventually, he got publicly executed by mods for avatarfagging.

>Rule 13: Do not use avatars or attach signatures to your posts.
The fact that the rule against avatarfagging is bundled together with banning signature use lends would support the interpretation that avatarfagging is considered to be an identifier just like a signature