Oh, good lord. Try taking the whole thing a little less seriously.
Dude, if you’re this concerned about being judged on a message board, by the user pictures, you’ve got issues.
Why this limit?
To quote the Mighty Thor, “I SAY THEE NAY!”
I used to really like avs, and really flashy sigs and the like, but in recent years most of my time has been spent on boards like this that lack those features. When I do go onto boards that have them, I now find them REALLY annoying. So much so that I often find myself resorting to adblocking the av and sig images (which aren’t really ads, but hey, it still works).
I vote no.
I don’t really care all that much either way, and have used avatars on a few other boards, but they just don’t matter much to me. Animated, flashing, blinking monstrosities are damned annoying but I’d guess those aren’t under serious consideration anyway. Static images? Meh.
The persistently wonky condition of the SDMB tips my vote firmly in the ‘nay’ category.
Me too.
It’s not an issue that keeps me awake at night but anything that degrades the efficiency of the boards even slightly isn’t welcome.
So a nay for me too.
No biggie.
You’ve got that right, Guin!!! Especially “you can turn them off.” I think I’ve heard that once or twice.
Even if you CAN turn them off, it makes the Board run slower. Has that one been mentioned yet?
I don’t know. All these repeated posts are making the thread run too slow to check. :eek:
Another vote for ‘no’.
I think someone also mentioned how pathetic it is to worry about 100K extra data in a page download.
Any chance of a link to that post?
It’s not the 100k extra data that concerns me, it’s the fact that I don’t like avatars.
But of course, I do like smilies, so my judgement may be suspect.
First, my vote would be no for avatars, but as long as i can turn them off and dont have to use them, i wouldn’t object.
A technical question here about the issue of bandwidth, server capacity, etc.
In vBulletin, do the avatars have to be hosted on the SDMB’s server, or is it possible to hotlink an avatar which loads from an external site?
For example, could i activate an avatar and designate my avatar as www.mywebsite.com/avatar.jpg , and have the image appear in the SDMB? Because if that were possible, and the images loaded from external sites, it shouldn’t be a drain on the SDMB server.
It’s not a vBulletin option, but it can be done. Takes some hackin’ though.
That was CarnalK himself in post #202
But as I mentioned upthread, it would be a complete loss of control for the mods and admins. Anyone could change avatars to anything at any time, and then change them back if they got called on it. “What do you mean my avatar was goat porn? No it wasn’t.” If someone produced a screenshot, the perpetrator could simply claim the screenshot was photoshopped. Hosting avatars elsewhere wouldn’t necessarily lead to the downfall of civilization, but it wouldn’t be pleasant, either.
Would you be okay if we got rid of the smileys and replaced them with scowlies?
Me: Ditto.
PTB: “Ditto?” “Ditto,” you provincial putz?
With a username like this? I think I could live with it.
Can I change my vote?