The Avatar size limit is to arbitrary
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Abaddon
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Be awesome like me and you can have larger...
Avatar size is fine as it is. The forums are about the *text* you enter, not how big/pretty your avatar is.
Edit: And have a look at the Avatar Help Thread in Computer Talk. They might be able to help you get your avatar resized for here.
Edit: And have a look at the Avatar Help Thread in Computer Talk. They might be able to help you get your avatar resized for here.
LucyDuke
staring at the clock
Yes, it's arbitrary. That doesn't make it unreasonable.
I must admit I like larger avatars too, and it would be nice to have animated ones... but some people are still on dial-up. Too much animation makes pages godawful slow to load, which isn't fair to anyone.
I wonder... if it came to a choice, would people rather have larger non-animated avatars or smaller animated ones?
I wonder... if it came to a choice, would people rather have larger non-animated avatars or smaller animated ones?
Bigfoot3814
Deity
Animated avatars are frivilous and distracting.
CCRunner
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I'd prefer to keep it non animated. The animated ones distract me as I read. It took me easly twice as long as normal to read your post because of Cutlass' thing above it always made my eyes wander up. It detracts from the text, which is the important part.
I'm all for larger ones though.
I'm all for larger ones though.
Mirc
Not mIRC!!!
Please keep in non-animated, it's one of the things I love about CFC (and no pictures in sigs, too).
The size doesn't matter IMHO, 100x100 is perfectly ok for me, but please don't allow avatars that skew the forum design (anything larger than 100x100 is too big). I don't understand why the limit on size though, as long as animated ones are banned.
The size doesn't matter IMHO, 100x100 is perfectly ok for me, but please don't allow avatars that skew the forum design (anything larger than 100x100 is too big). I don't understand why the limit on size though, as long as animated ones are banned.
Bigfoot3814
Deity
Yeah definitley keep the signatures the way they are.
I am also all for larger non-animated avatars. In this time and age, bandwidth is not such an issue I think.
So how about it, TF?
So how about it, TF?
Abaddon
Deity
Larger = Yes
Animated = No
Sigs? = No
Animated = No
Sigs? = No
azzaman333
meh
Mmmmmm....
Avatar size is not important to me, to be honest.
Avatar size is not important to me, to be honest.
I would vote neither! I think avatars are just fine the way they are.
Its not quite the same thing, but there exists today an option to upload a larger picture into your profile. It can be found in your control panel. HTH
Till
Adventurer
One of the nice things about CFC is that avatar size is in kept at a reasonable level. The main purpose of avatars is to help identify the poster, which they currently do just fine.
While making them bigger would give people more room to express their creativity, chances are that the people who can't find anything suitable for 70x70 would still produce eyesores if the limits were increased. They'd just be harder to overlook.
As for animated avatars:
(credit to zwelgje)
While making them bigger would give people more room to express their creativity, chances are that the people who can't find anything suitable for 70x70 would still produce eyesores if the limits were increased. They'd just be harder to overlook.
As for animated avatars:
Spoiler :
(credit to zwelgje)
When I go on other fora, and I see great big animated avatars, and also immense sigs that dwarf the actual posts and are full of dancing junk, I am very glad for the policy on this site. Personally I think avatars are a total waste of time and a distraction in the first place and I would be quite happy not to have them. To have them actually animated and therefore even more of a distraction is just an atrocity. If you want to see dancing things all over your screen then go and play a game!
azzaman333
meh
One of the nice things about CFC is that avatar size is in kept at a reasonable level. The main purpose of avatars is to help identify the poster, which they currently do just fine.
While making them bigger would give people more room to express their creativity, chances are that the people who can't find anything suitable for 70x70 would still produce eyesores if the limits were increased. They'd just be harder to overlook.
As for animated avatars:
Spoiler :
(credit to zwelgje)
My PANIC! avatar was better... (if only I could find it...)
LucyDuke
staring at the clock
I really like having avatars. Pictures are easier to identify quickly than names, and it allows posters to wiggle a bit with their identity.
They're just big enough. Any smaller and they'd be too difficult to fit anything good into (my current av excepted
), any larger and they'd be too much like Abaddon's. (Actually I don't see a problem with Ab's size, but larger than that would be too much.)
Animation is a terrible terrible terrible idea. I would adblock any animated avatars. There's enough crap on this planet trying to grab my attention by flashing pretty colors, I don't need more of it here.
It would be nice if the file size was upped a little bit, though. I've run into problems with that before. I can't imagine a few extra kb would overwhelm the servers, especially considering most regular users end up with most regular avatars cached anyway, right?
They're just big enough. Any smaller and they'd be too difficult to fit anything good into (my current av excepted
), any larger and they'd be too much like Abaddon's. (Actually I don't see a problem with Ab's size, but larger than that would be too much.)Animation is a terrible terrible terrible idea. I would adblock any animated avatars. There's enough crap on this planet trying to grab my attention by flashing pretty colors, I don't need more of it here.
It would be nice if the file size was upped a little bit, though. I've run into problems with that before. I can't imagine a few extra kb would overwhelm the servers, especially considering most regular users end up with most regular avatars cached anyway, right?
criminiminal
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lol @ people here being so against larger avatars & sigs...saying it's too distracting 
- as far as i know every site i have ever posted on you have the ability to NOT see sigs & avatars...so why not just shut them off...
as much as i love his site i think it is filled w/ some crabby people who dislike change. this is THE BEST civ site for information and knowledge. people are ridiculously great at this game...but the site looks like it's still stuck in 2001
live a little >:O
- as far as i know every site i have ever posted on you have the ability to NOT see sigs & avatars...so why not just shut them off...as much as i love his site i think it is filled w/ some crabby people who dislike change. this is THE BEST civ site for information and knowledge. people are ridiculously great at this game...but the site looks like it's still stuck in 2001
live a little >:O
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