This doesn't account for lurkers or people who are new to the site (not to mention one shouldn't have to block every avatar or specific ones just to avoid inappropriate ones).

you have to draw the line somewhere

All i'm saying is, be wary of how you word it. There's preventing the site from being oversexed, and then there's preventing cleavage

Unless i'm interpreting that improperly. For one, i would consider my current signature appropriate and make no plans on changing it, nor would i consider past utilized signatures, namely the following

to be inappropriate either. Discretion should play both ways

True.  I don't know what to say then...

yes

That would be a good idea Amp but it requires editing the site. Why would they do that for the few people it bothers? Besides, the new site should be coming soon and who knows what that has to bring. I don't understand what is so bad with this. I didn't mind the avatars (except that one that Pezus uploaded. O_O) but how hard is it just to follow guidlines? It's not like they are moderating every single thing you do. It is a semi-good idea Amp but one that would take a waste of time.

The mod team is currently debating the issue. I think cleavage is acceptable to some degree but I desire for it to be up to the discretion of the individual moderator. There's a pretty clear divide between small amounts of anime cleavage and the softcore porn avatars that have led to this change. For example I would find the pictures you posted acceptable, but not some of the lingerie/shirtless avatars that have become increasingly common on the site. 

I am perfectly open to discussing the issue with the community and I'm glad to see that people have been open with their feelings on the issue. We seek to make the site look more professional and to be an optimal viewing experience for everyone.

you won't believe how many half naked i have to see only when i wish to check my e-mails on the front page of my e-mail sites.

i just wonder why everyone is comparing it now with neogaf an so on. i thought this is another site? i thought this is the site were you could always chose an own avatar without a problem? this is one of the reasons why i'm here, because i had some kind of freedom here and have a signature here and not in some other forums. ok, i didn't think that i will chose this site because of that as my forum but i think this is the reason why i stayed and not in other forums, because i liked the look of this forum. i mean, if every site would be the same why do we even need different forums? i think some other things are better there as well shouldn't we change that as well here to get a better site? why don't we all just go to neogaf now?

I'm comparing it to NeoGAF to give a sense of the types of rules other forums have regarding avatars, not to say that Vgchartz has to be exactly likely NeoGAF.

did i say anything else? but if the line cuts a girl in bikini out of this website a guy who looks like a mass murder should be banned as well (i have nothing gainst your pic but i think it's worse than a bikini  girl) and if not, a girl in bikini looking like the girls i will see every freaking day in summer shouldn't be banned as well in my opinion. all that "here are kids" and "nsfw" is crazy for me because i don't think that i should forbid children now to walk along the street because they will see many girls in bikinis then in their gardens and this in not just a picture, this is for real then haha