How Come we can't have animated avatars?

[warmwaffles]

How come we can't have Animated Avatars? could it be that some peoples PC's can't handle them?

I have always been wondering this question cuz I am an animator in flash and I would love to make animated avatars....

 

[Fetus4188]

They are very distracting and they take longer to load for slower connections.

 

[Ansar]

Anyways, we have gotten used to avatars that probably dont have a useful way if animated.

 

[Reno]

How come we can't have Animated Avatars?

They are distracting from the main point, the post itself. Also as was said they slow forum speed down severely.

 

[warmwaffles]

Gotch ya...

I never get distracted by animated animated avatars unless I am looking at the persons profile and stuff...

but other wise I get your point....I hate dial up...I dont have it any more and I never want to go back....EVER...lol

 

[Birdjaguar]

Can you make your ATM avatar spit $20 bills?

 

[ainwood]

Moderator Action: Thread title made more descriptive .

They're generally ugly, distracting, and slow-down the server.

 

[Simetrical]

Some people are apparently distracted by any animation at all (not me, though).

Animated images aren't necessarily of substantial size, though—certainly simple animated GIFs can be 3–4 KB, which is under the size limit.

 

[warmwaffles]

Can you make your ATM avatar spit $20 bills?

Umm...if you dont know this already that symbol aTm stands for Texas A&M...

And is ranked 4th in the southern division

 

[vbraun]

They're generally ugly, distracting, and slow-down the server.

People thing adding animation is a really good skill even more so then making it look good...

 

[WildWeazel]

Minor animations is avatars (like AIM buddy icons) don't distract me, what's really annoying is blinking/flashing avatars or animated images in sigs.

 

[Simetrical]

Um . . . is it just me, or do you have an animated image in your sig? (Granted, a smiley, but it's still animated.)

 

[MarineCorps]

Um . . . is it just me, or do you have an animated image in your sig? (Granted, a smiley, but it's still animated.)

I think I'm going to shut up noe.

 

[Ginger_Ale]

Wrong thread. This is about animated avatars.

Obviously you didn't actually read any OTHER posts in the thread...

Minor animations is avatars (like AIM buddy icons) don't distract me, what's really annoying is blinking/flashing avatars or animated images in sigs.

 

[WildWeazel]

Yeah, I have smiley in my sig, but IMO that's different. We see smileys all the time so they don't really stand out. And they're very small. I was talking about people at some forums who have bright flashy animated banners in their sigs, most of which do nothing but advertise their username.

an extreme example: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showpost.php?p=3428757&postcount=7

 

[warmwaffles]

Wow this is such a hot subject

I mean I would love to have animated sigs...but you had to upload the images somewhere else...and the sig can't be to annoying...but I dont know who will decide that

 

[MarineCorps]

Obviously you didn't actually read any OTHER posts in the thread...

Don't mis quote me!

 

[Ansar]

an extreme example: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showpost.php?p=3428757&postcount=7

Yes, thank goodness our forum doesent do stuff like that.