Bigger Avatars - Yay or Nay?

There's a way to turn off avatars in the Control Panel. You can also turn off signatures and images. Look under Options.

Webmistress - I'm going to have to let that one slide because I haven't put the notice in the template yet to make it official. We are going to have to grandfather this in, unfortunately. Actually, what I might do is contact them as I find them and say that we have put in a no animation rule, but we won't force them to change since they uploaded their avatar under the new rules.

Let me know when you find an animated avatar - I always keep animation turned off.

Quote: just turn images off in browsers then you don't have to see them

Or use a real mans browser, something rugged and outdoorsey like Lynx.

(Actually had a reason to use that the other day - was chuffed as nuts!)

Oh yes.. I am for sure the most likely to put a porn ad in my avatar.

I almost want a flash avatar. But then someone would abuse it to spam things up.

just turn images off in browsers then you don't have to see them

I can live with this...
Glad we came to an agreement.

Woooohoooooo thanks!

So is it on? Ill be the first... Yay!

Looks like this is a go! I'll up it to 80x80 then, and no animation from now on.

hehehe

Currently under discussion http://www.webmaster-forums.net/showthread.php?t=31533

Hey did bjaa or renegade changed avatars? It seems I see a new avatar on my browser...

Did you guys changed your avatars?

And I'll note down the smilies as something to look at in the future - one thing at a time though!

Well I voted yes.

Although don't really have an argument, I just like the idea of bigger Avatars, simple as that!

attack of the lerkers?

This is odd. 'Yes' is winning, but I have not heard any great arguments for it. Speak up!

Just remember to duck and cover

Lol, Busy's becoming The Thought Police.

Anyway, I though that was the whole point of the forum? To let people exercise their right to free speech?

Although I think since that ASBO thread that MI5 have been stealing my washing.

In the US they allow free speach

I think we should have smilies of famous people. Here are some suggestions:

For anger - George Bush
For confused - Tony Blair
For upset - Pudsy Bear
For bored - Prince Charles
For stupid - Charles Clarke, Home Secretary, UK

Now goes to hide from MI5 and the FBI who are both angry at comments

We are all big kids. Lets design our own set of smilies for the forum

I voted no. They're big enough as is

I vote no because I don't really see very much point in avatars except to keep everyone different, 50 x 50 is big enough.

If it's going to made bigger, then, have it off by default and leave the option for people to view them or not.

Ok, how about 65x65 but no animation for AV's

agree now and I'll also suggest some more smilies (I'll even pick them out).

Don't forget peoples, you've also got your profile to post an image

I voted yes. 50 x 50 is a little small, 80 x 80 is a good size.

We have 100 x 100 on Sis-2-Sis and we have quite a few users on dial-up. We do use the graphics in the signatures, but we have limits on that and you can always turn off graphics and av's in your profile.

Hurray!
People agree with me on something!!!!

80 X 80 max sounds great to me but now that I think about it. I wish we could have some revolutionary way to tell your posts apart from others without messing up the flow of the page.

I'm going with no.

I like clean and fast. I'm on broadband, so I get my fast. So, I voted no to keep it clean.

I voted no, simply because there is no reason to change. It isn't a big deal, perhaps it might depend on the overall design. If it is a very simple, fast-loading site to begin with, bigger avatars might not hurt, but if it's a bit complex, larger avatars might clutter it up and make it slow-loading.

Also, if you have a 100x100 avatar, you can easily resize it without losing much quality at all, I'm sure.

What if we compromised and did 80 x 80 with no animation allowed? I'm sort of leaning towards the "no" side myself - keep it clean and uncluttered while allowing people to express themselves to some extent. But don't worry - I'll go by the vote or make a compromise rather than basing the decision on my own prefernce

And for the record - I would never allow graphics in signatures. I dont' like too much disruption in the flow from post to post. If you check the signature guidelines here we don't even allow too much use of BB codes in there.

Everyone gets their own stylesheet for their postes!!!

hmmm... it could be good to have bigger avatars, but thats not a pressing issue here, we need to brainstorm on something more innovative and useful...

Since the server change the forum is sooo much quicker so I personally don't think they will make it any slower and it does allow for better avatars

Humm... I think 80 X 80 shounds the best. I like the idea of people becomeing unique but I don't like it when people Put huge avatars and banners in their sig. I like a clean forum.

My vote's a yes...

Should we just roll the change up with the re-design? Get everything in at once, so it's like using a shiny brand-new TWF.

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And more importantly it'll give us an opportunity to test it!
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