Avatars?

Undertoad · 03-19-2004, 10:30 AM

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

03-19-2004, 10:30 AM	#4
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	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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