Jezebel
11-27-2007, 11:37 PM
Animated avatars are going to be disabled in the forum control panel.
I strive for neatness and readability on this forum, and think static pages accomplish this better. It would have been my intention to do this in the first place, but I didn't think about it until members had already started using them. The avatars weren't very distracting so I considered leaving them and only asking members to remove the overly distracting ones.
However, this is not something I want to have to make regular judgment calls about in the future. I'd rather not bug members about changing their avatars or have to explain where to draw the line between "acceptable" and "distracting". Not having animated avatars shouldn't detract from your experience on this forum anyway, and this will allow the moderation team to spend their time on more productive activities.
I strive for neatness and readability on this forum, and think static pages accomplish this better. It would have been my intention to do this in the first place, but I didn't think about it until members had already started using them. The avatars weren't very distracting so I considered leaving them and only asking members to remove the overly distracting ones.
However, this is not something I want to have to make regular judgment calls about in the future. I'd rather not bug members about changing their avatars or have to explain where to draw the line between "acceptable" and "distracting". Not having animated avatars shouldn't detract from your experience on this forum anyway, and this will allow the moderation team to spend their time on more productive activities.