The Official RFD Position on Avatars

[Ryan]

While we support free speech at RFD, recently users have been choosing avatars that could potentially offend other readers and generally degrade the RFD experience.

This is why we have decided to outline features of an avatar that we would like you to avoid. These aren't hard and fast rules and it will ultimately be at the discretion of the RFD staff to decide if an avatar has crossed the line.

Questionable avatar content: close ups of breasts, crotches, or bums (eg thongs), suggestions of sexual acts.

A good rule to follow is "Would you want your boss/parents/children to see you looking at that?"

At no time will we allow avatars to display profanity or racist imagery.

[seefuthead]

ive never understood the point of avatars..... why not remove them so 56k users dont gotta dl them.

[Ryan]

You can disable them in your user settings if you want.

[Shredder59]

cheers to RFD for trying to keep this site clean.

[coolpc]

i support this idea totaly, but then my eyes are going to miss alot of the avatars!!

[Hybrid88]

Thanks for taking a position.

[wju2004]

Yeah - thanks for keeping things clean. Nothing like your wife or kid asking you what that avatar is....and to say nothing about co-workers.

[Cafe_333]

ive never understood the point of avatars..... why not remove them so 56k users dont gotta dl them.

Personally I like the idea of avatars. It gives the ability to personalize your idenity in a public community along with a signature. Also helps me to easily identify other RFDers and helps me to quickly locate my own posts while scrolling through threads instead of reading each name.

As Ryan said, you can disable them in your user settings if you want.

[gmark2000]

Why is ghettogal's avatar so huge despite the size restrictions?

[Carnage]

Why is ghettogal's avatar so huge despite the size restrictions?

That doesn't look that big.

In terms of filesize it's smaller then yours, just a bit taller.

[Rometiklan]

That doesn't look that big.

In terms of filesize it's smaller then yours, just a bit taller.

Maybe the shrinkage is from the cold in here.

[akosh]

Maybe the shrinkage is from the cold in here.

It took you one month to come up with that?

[Cyber6]

Maybe the shrinkage is from the cold in here.

It took you one month to come up with that?

ROFLOL !!!

[jui_jui]

A good rule to follow is "Would you want your boss/parents/children to see you looking at that?"

that's a great and simple measurement to follow!!

thanks mods!

[jnusaputr]

i agree, please keep rfd clean