The Official RFD Position on Avatars

[AzN_RiverdaleCI]

My avatar is an animated gif but it doesnt animate once uploaded here.
Any info about that?

its working fine as of this post, i can see it moving.

[chuckfarley]

I think RFD should consider banning animated GIFs altogether. They are annoying, distracting, and never entertaining.

It's unpleasant to read a page and always have something moving off to the side... I tend to leave sites quicker when I find them infested with these little "gems".

[Nikita]

I think RFD should consider banning animated GIFs altogether. They are annoying, distracting, and never entertaining.

It's unpleasant to read a page and always have something moving off to the side... I tend to leave sites quicker when I find them infested with these little "gems".

Easily annoyed aren't you? Maybe you should practice some 'focus' techniques instead of expecting everyone else to accomodate your peeves.

[Psubs]

Maybe its too large in file size

I think that you should change your avatar because displaying a p@ssy is not appropriate.

[AzN_RiverdaleCI]

I think RFD should consider banning animated GIFs altogether. They are annoying, distracting, and never entertaining.

It's unpleasant to read a page and always have something moving off to the side... I tend to leave sites quicker when I find them infested with these little "gems".

I think you can choose to hide avatars on RFD.

[ullyeus]

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.

My avatar was recently removed by a moderator and contained none of this criteria. I was participating in a thread about someone taking offence to a raptor jesus and changed mine...then it got changed again.


Can you expand on this?

[Kalel]

I find it interesting these avatar things most of the boards I visit have restrications but find on some I can meet the length and with but not size of the file or the other way around. I applaud restrictions but its frustrating. Now if we could try to do something about size of sig line or size of any photos/attachments. I think its great some people want to show pics of things like prizes won but sometimes the pics are just to big. Perhaps people could either use thumbnail pics or have a link to where people can see them if they choose. I use dial up and it can sometimes mess things up.

[oopsanal]

Interesting, why isn't mine (animated gif) working? It's 100 x 97.

[fergy]

Interesting, why isn't mine (animated gif) working? It's 100 x 97.

The kid tinkling is animated in my browser.

[mrperfect]

Animated avatars add more color and life to your character We should allow more frames in our avatar and allow bigger size hotlinking.

[Mendesb]

I think RFD should consider banning animated GIFs altogether. They are annoying, distracting, and never entertaining.

It's unpleasant to read a page and always have something moving off to the side... I tend to leave sites quicker when I find them infested with these little "gems".

there is this one guy with a picture of a bug crawling, and I always think there is a bug on my screen. Thats the only one that buggs me.

haha, get it, buggs :P