NO, I hate animated gifs and get distracted chewing gum often + would beneifit from SSRI's
YES! The more the better!
Yes, but not in signatures.
The avatar size limit on this board is pretty tight. I'm not asking for the width limit to be loosen now, I absolutely hate it when people have these whopping avatars that take up half the screen - on some boards.
My point is, how can you be annoyed by animated avatars on this board? They're so small, only so much animation can take place! If you get easily destracted by them - well, you must not find the topic's posts all that interesting, or you just like watching our gay milk cartons.
Gay milk cartons?
Anyway, personally (which means I'm speaking only for myself here) when I read something I'm there for the words. I like an icon to identify the poster as that helps for quick recognition at a later point in the discussion. But if I wanted to watch an animation I would....go to a site that shows cartoons and watch all the pretty moving pictures until I became a drooling mess.
However, this is the intertubes and part of the appeal of that is that there are a million different tasty doohickies interacting which is great so I don't mind a GOOD animated avatar if the user has created it themselves and it is interesting to look at (and I've done it myself in the past). What twists my nipple is when people have crap like "Dancing Spidey" or the black kid mouthing "That's racist" as avatars - for crying out loud people get some sodding originality.
But when all is said and done, the site admin decides what is and what is not acceptable and I'm happy to abide by those rules for as long as I want to visit the site.
So please, take this as a plea from a seasoned ESCAPE presser - if you have an animated avatar, make it original.
/steps off soapbox
PS
I don't know, I clicked those links a gazillion times and never got a free iPod. I obviously just missed the boat each time.Originally Posted by zacs7
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They seemed to prefer numbers like 999999 for some reason.
"The Internet treats censorship as damage and routes around it." - John Gilmore
I'm more upset that the dimensions you can use are so small.
yeah, plz enable 10000x10000 gif images
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You want 100000000 gif images for an avatar? That's either one hell of an animation, or you're just plain greedy.
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It's really awesome
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As voted, animated avatars can now be used.
waaaahoooo!!!
Ironically, now I find MK27's avatar really annoying. I want to punch it in the face.
sweet
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Democracy has brought it upon itself....
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anymore threats like that against the family and we sent mickey & bugs over with some props
