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MBP's argument is weak.

Firstly, what size phone do you have that allows people to see avatars so easily? Most people aren't going to be close enough to make out any avatars. The only people who are going to be close enough to make out pictures on your phone are people who are right over your shoulder. And people who are right over your shoulder are probably close friends.

Secondly, I don't know what browsing software you use, but my Android browser allows me to zoom in. If the avatar problem was really a big problem, you could just zoom in and pan the screen to the right, blocking the avatars out of view, only making text visible.

Finally, if people do manage to see the 'sexy' avatars on your phone, they're probably going to be considerably close to you, since you're on a phone. In which case, there's a simply solution: just tell those people that you're on a forum and some people have sexy avatars. If you show them that you're on a forum and not a gay site, yet they still think you're looking at gay porn, then that's a problem with stupidity, not website regulation.