Avatars

[UDawg]

Can we increase the allowance size of the avatars. LOL!

We need to see Drunken Shotty Man!

I am making a petition on behalf of PsychoSy. Damn with bandwidth! Get Drunken Shotty Man on our board.

http://www.zzzz4.net/mas/images/icons/avatars/ani/large-ani-avatars/shotgun-ani-avatar2.gif

[Matthyahuw]

what's the Hebrew in your avatar now, I can only make out the Aleph...

[The Baron]

Personally, I don't like animated GIFs as avatars--they can be really distracting when you're reading a long thread.

So I'd say leave it as is.

[de><ta]

Animated avatars are not distracting.:p :)

[saturnotaku]

Originally posted by The Baron
Personally, I don't like animated GIFs as avatars--they can be really distracting when you're reading a long thread.

So I'd say leave it as is.

Same here.

[UDawg]

Originally posted by de><ta
Animated avatars are not distracting.:p :)

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[b00bie]

Originally posted by UDawg71
you are....boobies....right they.....boobies....don't dis....boobies....tract at all....boobies!....

Hey, I know :D

[digitalwanderer]

Bandwidth costs, and nothing sucks it down faster than large animated avatars & sig pictures! :(

I'm against both. I like avatars as they make it easier for me to keep people straight, ('cept for "Steal-yer-mates-avatar Days" over at Rage3D where we all swap around avatars for a couple of days just to confuse people...it REALLY confuses people!), and find my own posts so I can know where I left off in a thread....but increasing the size of 'em is just a bad plan.

They're good at what they are, but don't try and make too big a deal out of them or they'll distract from what your words are. :)

(Yeah, says the man who made his avatar in a fit of inspiration at 2am one night and who has come to be recognized by it... :rolleyes: )

[ricercar]

The main reason I became a regular at nV News is because there are no garish .sig images, and the avatars were customizable but not overt.

<rant>
I just despize boards/threads where .sigs consume more real estate than the message body. There's no friggin excuse to have a .sig longer than your message; it says you care more about your vanity than your ideas.
</rant>

Say no to large or animated avatars. Any truly creative person can work within low-bandwidth boundaries to make a distracting—uh, i mean attractive—avatar.

[sbp]

145kb? http://sbp777.homestead.com/files/ugone2far.gif

[digitalwanderer]

64x64 avatar, 10k max is about the biggest I think is reasonable.

No sig images, not ever! :mad:

[b00bie]

I must agree that sig images are kinda distracting.
They usually take the focus away from your actual text ;)

[vampireuk]

I too hate sig images they just increase loading time and have no point what so ever:mad:

[goofer456]

Originally posted by de><ta
Animated avatars are not distracting.:p :)

Nice Avatar:D

[UDawg]

Alright not big Avatars. BTW this was more a joke than anything else. :p

[PsychoSy]

Originally posted by sbp
145kb? http://sbp777.homestead.com/files/ugone2far.gif

I actually trimmed it down to 46K but that's still 26K too big. :(

I'm using it as an avatar on Quake*****'s forums though! :p

[UDawg]

It does rock though. I remember that from the news but I don't know what the situation was.