Is my avatar to "busy"?

**JfW** · 04-15-2005, 07:50 PM

I was just wondering what moderation (and others) prefered about animated .giffs for avatars.

Is it too much a nuissence? Does it cause too much irritation for dialup users?

I think mine is the first instance of a giff avatar on the new forum as most don't even utilize one. I just thought I'd ask.

**Gandalfe** · 04-15-2005, 07:53 PM

I think it is fine. I don't think that there is any performance hit associated with animated GIFs. So enjoy, life is good.

**Sigmund451** · 04-15-2005, 08:12 PM

I got a fever that only more cowbell will cure. I need more cowbell

**Safesax** · 04-15-2005, 08:45 PM

Who am I to say?

**DirkW** · 04-15-2005, 09:26 PM

I think avatars should be more dignified, with tongue planted firmly in cheek.

**brassnaked** · 04-15-2005, 09:39 PM

I like the animated avatars...the more, the merrier!!!

**bariman** · 04-15-2005, 09:42 PM

Oh great, now every member with an animated avatar is going to post here...

Bariman

**Pete** · 04-15-2005, 09:54 PM

This was actually a subject that garnered 100+ posts at another Forum I'm a member of.

My Avatar there was provided to me by a Mod. It's animated. It's animated very fast on Macintosh computers. It's gets moderately annoying, in that case

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I prefer non-animated Avatars or animated Avatars with very slow (or occasional) motion because I tend to agree with the comment that they are a bit distracting.

However, I haven't heard any complaints from anyone on this Forum -- and if they do, they can either block everyone's Avatars completely using the User CP (under Show Avatars) or, because we don't have on-site Avatar storage, use Mozilla, Netscape, Firefox or Opera and right-click the Avatar you don't like and choose "block images from this server"

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**Old Charlie** · 04-15-2005, 10:19 PM

Originally Posted by DirkW

I think avatars should be more dignified, with tongue planted firmly in cheek.

Where do I get an avatar like that. I've never seen one like it.

**DirkW** · 04-15-2005, 10:35 PM

I just found a picture that I liked and ran it through an Avatar sizer like this one: http://www.tucows.com/preview/357312.html

Google image search is a great source of images.