Moving avatars

[Jeffbert]

[Rukawagf]

[Potato]

while we are on the subject of sigs/avatars:

can i have this in my sig, or is it too huge to fit through the window?



Potato

[Kevin]

I like your penguins

You have that silly potato on your site anyway, keep the penguins for this site

[Potato]

[cmoon]

sig files are an issue I am discussing with the other mods. Personally I like height restrictions on sig files. Aesthetically I feel sigs about the size of potatoe's current one are better than the proposed one; but I'm still wondering if this is really much of an issue...

I just want to avoid having a situation where it takes longer for everyone's huge, flashing, animated avatars on sig files to load with text content like 'yup.'

[Potato]

[Kevin]

[cmoon]

OFFICIAL PROPOSAL

(not that the other mods have approved this yet, but I don't think anyone really cares about this issue anymore...)

AVATARS
Restrictions on avatars remain the same except they be allowed to be animated. That means 80x80 pixels, 18 kb size.

I would like to propose that the size of the file be amended to something like 50K to allow for more in the way of animated avatars. Personally I would like to leave it at 18kb, but that size restriction is VERY limiting. This is a bandwidth issue that I'd like to hear more about from Strobe_Z. Perhaps there can be a compromise somewhere--something like 25k?

SIG FILES
That such files be restricted to 50pixel height and 200 pixel width. Such files should have a size of no larger than 10 kb.

Again note I don't personally want to put a restriction on the animation, but the size of the file.

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Anyway, what are your thoughts. There are still avatars and sigs out there that would be under violation; but I think most people are cool now with that and just want to know, with certainty, what the rules are. Do these sound pretty reasonable?

[Kevin]

[Potato]

so now avatars can be animated? I might downsize/animate the potato i posted (so that it blinks every ten seconds.)

I'll just email it to my friend Steven. he knows nearly everything about computers, he's got 10 of them for god's sake!

[cmoon]

These aren't the official rules yet, just a proposal from me. They are very close to rules of other forums I know that have kept the avatar/sig file annoyance thing to a minimum.

Kevin> I'm not terribly worried about your avatar, though if it were to become an issue, your avatar could easily be shrunk to 80x80 with little noticeable difference.

[Potato]

i missed you, cmoon. *hugs*

[Kevin]

[Potato]