Why are we not allowed them???
Avatars
- Thread starter Linaw50
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Avatars are horrible, tacky things!
Stand strong, Niall!
Stand strong, Niall!
I really want to have an avatar too, but Niall doesn't like them and I guess it's his opinion that counts around here.
Take up way too much bandwidth given the number of members we have on here and slow down the whole site, particularly for those on dial ups.
Besides, while amusing at first they rapidly become boring and invariably end up with some tosser linking to a huge photo which pushes all the threads three screens to the right and shafts the entire site.
Besides, while amusing at first they rapidly become boring and invariably end up with some tosser linking to a huge photo which pushes all the threads three screens to the right and shafts the entire site.
Actually avatars are fine, as long users can choose whether to display them or not while viewing the page. Would be great if we could have such an option. Ditto goes for signatures.
Bury Red said:
Can't you have a limit and auto resize it if it's too big
Melvinyeo said:
You can with ubb so my guess is that you can with this software.
However, they still use bandwidth, and lots of it if you have lots of traffic.
The bottom line is that Niall doesn't want to pay for them which is fair enough IMO. I also suspect he fecking hates them anyway (which is also fair enough).
So stop wasting bandwidth by asking
Move on people, nothing to see here.
Yeah Bury Red and Wibble pretty much summed up my opinion of avatars. Posts should be all about the content, I don't want to be distracted by a picture of pickachu exploding (that would be my avatar!) or some massive signature with a banner ad in it!
Sorry but this is an avatar free zone!
Sorry but this is an avatar free zone!
Niall said:
Fair enough then, I guess.
I know this is a long shot but how about Signitures, as this could be the replacements of Avatars.
Wizard Keyaz said:
We've already got more than enough information in the location boxes of most people than we need to see every time they post. Given that 95% of Melvin's posts consist of less than 3 words and a smilie, his location has probably contributed 5 times as many words to the forum as he has.
Keep it simple, no avatars, no signiatures.
We've had the debate umpteen times before and Niall shows no sign of changing his mind over these matters so let's drop it.
Wizard Keyaz said:
If management hasn't noticed this yet, we are abusing our location entry to put a signatures.
I am up for singatures, but againts avatars. No dynamic signatures thou, and shouldn't be more than one line longer.
Cheers!
Sorry I've no intention of activating singatures, signiatures, signitures, signatures or whatever way you spell it! As stated, they're a distraction and once you've read someone's sig once they serve no real purpose and become an annoyance.
I for one just want to read people's comments about the topic being discussed, not their philsophy on life, liberty or fruit of the fecking loom!
This has always been my policy and it ain't gonna change.
I for one just want to read people's comments about the topic being discussed, not their philsophy on life, liberty or fruit of the fecking loom!
This has always been my policy and it ain't gonna change.
If we had them, mine would probably look a bit like this
In fact there's nothing to stop you posting an image alongside every post...
If we did have avatars mine would actually be
I'm half tempted to turn them on just to use that!
I'm half tempted to turn them on just to use that!
Avatars would just slow the place down on a site this big with so many members
But thats been said like a billion times now in this thread so il move along.
Mine would probably be:
or perhaps the vampire one:
or perhaps the vampire one:
Nicked thhs off somewhere else
