BuddyPress.org

I agree. I have already made the line about having to activate your account from an email link big, bold and red on that page, to make it more prominent, but perhaps an interstitial page with a more prominent notice would be better, so users can’t even continue to the option of uploading an avatar until they have first clicked the link in email — once verified by the link, they could then proceed to upload an avatar and then login.