Animated avatars?

[Catfish]

Because they are.

Yes, just like large signatures with animated emoticons. Let's get consistent and ban those as well.

 

[Azale]

Yes, just like large signatures with animated emoticons. Let's get consistent and ban those as well.

Not nearly comparable.

 

[Catfish]

I beg to differ. I find Perfection's signature more distracting than Techumseh's paddling Tecumseh, and there are far worse.

 

[ainwood]

But I see some of you have more exuberant "tastes".

Which is pretty-much why we have to have an all-or-nothing rule.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

To be fair, ainwood, most of the posted images are far too large for avatars, period. My own "tractor beam" avatar is possible at TrekBBS because they allow avatars to be 140x140, and are a bit more generous with the kb-allowance.

I've also used animated smileys for avatars - quite small, not terribly distracting:

 

[Perfection]

I beg to differ. I find Perfection's signature more distracting than Techumseh's paddling Tecumseh, and there are far worse.

I don't disagree with that. My contention though is that the animated avatars we'd come up would be far more distracting then my sig.

See gifs posted in this thread as examples.

 

[Catfish]

I don't disagree with that. My contention though is that the animated avatars we'd come up would be far more distracting then my sig.

Your sig is not the benchmark. As I said, there are far worse.

See gifs posted in this thread as examples.

The worst of those fail simply because they exceed the size limit.

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[techumseh]

This policy does seem to be a matter of taste, ie. the powers that be think that animated avatars are a mark of a tacky web site. Am I wrong?

If I have 'put my finger on it', so to speak, would it be more acceptable to have a smaller size of avatar for those that are animated? It's harder to be gauche and common in a smaller space, I think.

 

[Heretic_Cata]

I can't wait for animated avatars to be allowed so i could have one of these as my avatar.

 

[classical_hero]

I certainly agree with the policy of not having animated avatars, especially on a site like this, since we have such a wide variety of people that we could easily have some that are very weird.

 

[BuckyRea]

I certainly agree with the policy of not having animated avatars, especially on a site like this, since we have such a wide variety of people that we could easily have some that are very weird.

That's a pretty slippery slope there. You ban something because it's potentially "very weird"?

By the way, Catfish's animated sigfile is at the bottom of that slippery slope. It turns every post of his into an insect infestation. It's like he's trying to kill off all the CFC users who have epilepsy.

 

[Birdjaguar]

We can't even manage clear guidelines for the babe thread; I can imagine the epic fail of trying to do so for animated avatars.

Next up: Hey, can I add sound to my animated avatar? I promise it will not be any more annoying than my avatar.

 

[Moss]

I'm one that actually wishes the smaller-avatar sizes (70x70 or whatever it was) were still in effect.

A great avy is a nice way to compliment a person's username/persona/whatever, but IMO simpler is better.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Nobody is forcing people to have a larger avatar if they prefer smaller ones.

 

[Catfish]

By the way, Catfish's animated sigfile is at the bottom of that slippery slope. It turns every post of his into an insect infestation. It's like he's trying to kill off all the CFC users who have epilepsy.

I'm not that cruel.

Nobody is forcing people to have a larger avatar if they prefer smaller ones.

He can still see yours, can't he?

 

[Valka D'Ur]

My avatar is within the rules. It isn't distracting, and its colors harmonize nicely with the Dark Blue skin I use on the forum. If other people don't like my avatar, they have my permission not to look at it.

 

[Moss]

My avatar is within the rules. It isn't distracting, and its colors harmonize nicely with the Dark Blue skin I use on the forum. If other people don't like my avatar, they have my permission not to look at it.

It's not about your avatar, it's the fact that I said I still wish we had the original avatar size limits, and I wish that not because I care about the size of my own avatar (which you suggested in your post) but that I would prefer other avatars were smaller because I can see those as well (which is what Catfish is getting at).

 

[Valka D'Ur]

You have the option to disable avatar viewing in your user preferences. If you don't like the avatars other people use, why do you keep looking at them?

 

[Camikaze]

You have the option to disable avatar viewing in your user preferences. If you don't like the avatars other people use, why do you keep looking at them?

They are a very useful identifier. The annual avatar switch in OT proves this point. People get confused, because they associate users with an avatar. Turning avatars off makes identification harder. So it's perfectly valid to want smaller avatars, which have the benefit of being an easy identifier, and yet don't take up as much room, are not as distracting, and take less time to load.

I like 100x100 avatars, but that's why I wouldn't like animated avatars, and presumably why Moss prefers 70x70.

 

[Abaddon]

I really struggle to identify posters without Avatars.