About these Avatars Ed/Spare Ed...

[Charisse2]

Are you able to give an update and a guideline on what will and perhaps more importantly what will not be acceptable?

I agree with you that animated avatars may be distracting to the site and so have scored that one off my list.

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[Charisse2]

Yes, but Answerbank is not like other sites now is it?

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[Mr Veritas]

Also AB Ed said on another thread,that once you had chosen your Avatar you are stuck with it!
What sort of choice is that?
On another forum site I visit,you can change your Avatars daily if you wish.
From the sound of it,animated Avatars will not be accepted by the AB system,as their "image" size would be too large.

[ABerrant]

If animated avatars are a distraction does that mean animated adverts are to be consigned to the dustbin?

As to animated avatars being too large (file size), the animated 80x80 gifs I used for AnswerBank Beta were 4 to 6 KBs. The current 64x64 default "jelly" avatar is 5.7 KB

[cazzz1975]

omg thats pretty bad if that is true then, only ONE avatar ever???!!!

[Charisse2]

My apology as I misquoted the Ed! I have read back on his Good Evening thread on Saturday. He actually said "Maybe it would be too busy?" but that they would discuss.

[Robinia]

Surely this site is about interesting questions and answers, not interesting avatars? I for one would prefer not to see animated ones...like many others on here I can't see lines between Q'or A's on my computer so it's already pretty jumbled up without having dancing pictures as an added distraction.

[Jan1957]

I'm with you Robinia. Animated avatars drive me crazy! I think they would put me off using this site. I would like to be able to change the avatar now and again though.

[Bobbisox]

I want me pink donut back,,,blah-blah-blah!!!

[Robinia]

I do see some adverts...not sure if it's all of them & yes, they are distracting too, but at least I can just about concentrate on the centre of the page...adding more animation would be too much.

[Charisse2]

I think that "busy" means "distracting"! :0]

I have a few in mind, a couple were chosen by my sons and would probably be unsuitable given that they are "toon" characters. The other
is one I used when I was on Facebook and is static.

[Charisse2]

Hide the avatar would solve the problem yes.

And how about an "ignore this member" function for those that find that difficult to do of their own volition?

[dothawkes31]

ooo charisse are we having an 'ignore this member' button???? How would that work and where do i sign up for that one???

[smudge]

Personally, I'm not bothered whether we have avitars or not, 'specially the animated ones! There are enough distractions on here at times as it is! ;o}

[smudge]

P.S. I didn't have any lines between answers until I upgraded to IE8. Much easier on the eye now!

Hope that helps.