# Sliding avatars? **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sliding-avatars/954796 **Category:** About This Message Board **Created:** [November 23, 2021, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sliding-avatars/954796 "2021-11-23T06:40:04Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 20
### Author: ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT) #### Post date: [November 24, 2021, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sliding-avatars/954796/20 "2021-11-24T05:21:07Z")
Whether it activates when scrolling down seems to be dependent on how fast I scroll down. If I scroll past the avatar quickly, it doesn’t have time to get sticky. If I don’t, then it will pop in. Scrolling up, it always appears, but @codinghorror has made it pretty clear to me that Discourse is not designed for scrolling up. So it would seem odd to design for that use case. That said, I find it way too distracting and disabled it with a single line of CSS, like I mentioned in the thread that @GreysonCarlisle mentioned. I don’t hold my breath that there will be an option to disable it. I currently have a small number of fixes to the themes here that I use, which I’ve not released. I make links a brighter blue and underline them so they stand out more. I remove the space between a link and the little bubble that shows how many times that link has been clicked. I fix the small sans-serif MathJax text to match the regular text. And now I stop the sliding avatars. (I’ve also considered fixing the **bold** to be the exact same size as the regular text, instead of slightly bigger/smaller.) Would releasing these things be useful to anyone besides me? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sliding-avatars/954796)._