I think the fourm could use some avatars. I'm not sure if they would just be your character's face or if you could just choose it but ethier way it would be a nice touch.
Forum avatars don't make sense. People change their looks so often so it's not like you will recognize their posts by their avatar. I know people who change their look multiple times per day!
Perhaps you could choose a snapshot of your favorite outfit and have that as your avatar for the whole site. That way you can change your look daily, but the avatar being used throughout is picked once (kind of like taking a picture of your Xbox live avatar to use as an avatar).
Or perhaps give us images to pick from, even things we can unlock by doing things in world.