People have indeed pushed the rule, so stop acting like these measures are brought to the table because some mod woke up in a bad mood. Even though they appear to be tough, I don't really bother, they are a direct response to some avatars that were indeed quite annoying.

Rol's approach seems to be the best way to go. It avoids though restrictions and guarantees a safe browsing. Not allowing the site to be safe for work is as bad as establishing though measures to avatars.

the resistance will never be silenced.

the resistance misses Whitney Houston.

At least we are having discussion about the manner. I am fine with the rule. I don't post that much anyway.

i miss pezus' floppy man titties

Cool.

Best way is to do what Rol and I said pages ago.

Don't make new rules, we already have some for NSFW stuff. Instead, just have the mods be more aggressive in warning/banning the offenders.

EDIT: Maybe in the site upgrade... and a report avatar function.

I'm sure a "Disable avatars" option would have been better. You can already disable sigs, so why go down the route of censoring?

They are amazingly beautiful! I just love the one on the right and then the one on the left.

I think there should be an option to turn off avatar just like you can with sigs. Everybody is happy then why is that so hard?

This was all a scheme to bring the community together in a fruitful, fun discussion - something these forums haven't seen in quite a while.

Thank you Machina.

I think that aside from having an option to turn off avatars, then Rol's is the best idea. How about if the mods do this the democratic way and have a poll with various options? If not to straight up decide what to do then at least to have a better feel of what this community thinks on the whole.