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How do I disable ANIMATED Avatar display on these forums?

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@limetech , @jonp , @eschultz

 

How does one disable the display of user Avatars on forum posts?

 

Why would I ever want to do that you ask? It's because I'm noticing extremely annoying ANIMATED avatars used by new users that I find extremely distracting to the point of them ruining the forum experience.

Edited by BRiT

fortunately I'm not a new user?

17 hours ago, 1812 said:

fortunately I'm not a new user?

Trust me, this wasn't aimed at you. (besides, your avatar fired the first shot xD)

 

The issue was a single user with a psychedelic seizure inducing gif that is very annoying. One way I can think to eliminate the issue fairly is to change the view selectively like signatures are currently handled. The  nuclear option of disallowing animation in avatars is another, but penalizes those who use the option tastefully.

 

Not everybody is bothered or cares, but to some it's really annoying, to the point of destructive urges.

11 hours ago, jonathanm said:

Trust me, this wasn't aimed at you. (besides, your avatar fired the first shot xD)

 

The issue was a single user with a psychedelic seizure inducing gif that is very annoying. One way I can think to eliminate the issue fairly is to change the view selectively like signatures are currently handled. The  nuclear option of disallowing animation in avatars is another, but penalizes those who use the option tastefully.

 

Not everybody is bothered or cares, but to some it's really annoying, to the point of destructive urges.

 

Uhm... yeah... sorry about that.

 

I had asked @SSD why .gif's are even allowed... The upload dialog mentions jpg, and png... not gif.. even tho I clicked one and it worked :\

 

Sorry. 

2 hours ago, tbonedude420 said:

 

Uhm... yeah... sorry about that.

 

I had asked @SSD why .gif's are even allowed... The upload dialog mentions jpg, and png... not gif.. even tho I clicked one and it worked :\

 

Sorry. 

 

Thanks dude! I am following up with the management.

I’ll look into this and see what options we have. 

These are all the options we have. I’m inclined to just disable animated profile pictures. They aren’t necessary and I agree with BRiT that they can be downright painful to look at. Thoughts?

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2 minutes ago, jonp said:

These are all the options we have. I’m inclined to just disable animated profile pictures. They aren’t necessary and I agree with BRiT that they can be downright painful to look at. Thoughts?

 

That seems a reasonable approach to me. 

4 minutes ago, jonp said:

I’m inclined to just disable animated profile pictures.

 

+1

 

Don't need to be reminded of MySpace, so many gifs.

Done. Let me know if that didn’t work for any reason. 

34 minutes ago, jonp said:

Done. Let me know if that didn’t work for any reason. 

 

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8 hours ago, jonp said:

Done. Let me know if that didn’t work for any reason. 

 

Just tried uploading an animation - it was blocked.  So it looks like it works.  Thanks. 

4 hours ago, CHBMB said:

Your cannon has gone droopy! ;)

Sent from my LG-H815 using Tapatalk
 

 

It's just resting....

30 minutes ago, Squid said:

Still shooting for me

 

Me too.

YOU SAW NOTHING. MOVE ALONG.

Tis a sad, sad day.....

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