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What does a red square within a white square mean?

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What does a red square within a white square next to user name supposed to mean? This has happened to me second time in past 2 months. Is it an indication that I am under some kind of surveillance? If so am I not supposed to know it? Even in CCTV surveillance areas it is now mandatory to put up a sign "This area is under CCTV surveillance. Will someone explain all this please?...raj
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No...that square is not meant for picture of User ...if so it should have been there all along...

do you have yours in such a square next to your User name on your home page when you log in?

I wonder why no one from technical committee or AC does not answer...making me a little uncomfortable....it is not there today though

thanks for reading and responding...
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raj (sublime_ocean)

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Thanks MarkL,,,it would be so nice of you to go out of the way to find out what all this is about...

gratefully..
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raj (sublime_ocean)

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I do not have the means to take a snapshot of the screen...may be I will take a picture though my cam....let's see...for now the red outline within the white outline of the box has disappeared...

thanks for your gesture..
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raj (sublime_ocean)

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It means that the website has specified to your browser that the browser should load a user's picture, but for whatever reason, that picture has failed to load. The brower still knows the dimensions of the picture it should load, so it displays a rectangle of those dimensions, and displays an icon to show you that something failed.

It would look approximately like this:

 

for providing an answer to my query. However why then does it happen once in a while and not every time?,,,I confirm that I haven't loaded any profile pic.

regards....

raj (sublime_ocean)

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