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Implementing them = selecting one radio button
I strongly feel that they suck ass.
- They take attention away from the text - the important part of a forum and especially this one
- They discourage newbies and lurkers from posting, and when such people post their posts are taken less seriously
- They encourage a more closed cliquey nature to the community
- If any single avatar is crap, the entire board is crappier by nature
- They cause up to an additional 100k of image loading per page and up to an additional 1 meg of bandwidth required per reader (not user) per day (including search engine spidering)
- They make you hate some people on the basis of something other than what they say; granted, that's our general tendency as humans, but still, let's not encourage it
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