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Should Avatars be regulated more?

yes 48 41.38%
 
no 68 58.62%
 
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voty2000 on 19 February 2013

The site just needs to do the same things as sigs, let us block them.



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gergroy on 19 February 2013
BasilZero said:
There are far worse avatars in other forums and they go unregulated - people who find offense are usually people who dont know anything about the net along with that why would you go to a site that has "NSFW" content even as avatars...there's a reason why its called...Not Safe For Work..

Anyways, cant you block avatars like signatures?

avatars are supposed to be safe for work on this site... at least that is what the forum rules say.  Thats why they have a NSFW section, so people that want to post that crap can go there.  

and no, you block signatures, but not avatars...



gergroy on 19 February 2013
voty2000 said:
The site just needs to do the same things as sigs, let us block them.


thats a good idea, I would be fine with that and then everybody would be happy.



toadslayer72 on 19 February 2013
voty2000 said:
The site just needs to do the same things as sigs, let us block them.

This is and always has been the best solution.



I LOVE paying for Xbox Live! I also love that my love for it pisses off so many people.

Busted on 19 February 2013
gergroy said:

it is freaking embarassing if somebody comes up to you while you are viewing this site and there is a picture of a half naked guy in drag or a scantily clad women with Kaz's head photoshopped on it.  

Why? is not your (or anyone's) problem what some guy you've probably never seen uses as his avatar! -and by is not your problem i mean you didn't choose it, why would embarass YOU what other people think of it?



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theprof00 on 19 February 2013

i guess people really hate kaz



chris_wing on 19 February 2013
gergroy said:
BasilZero said:
There are far worse avatars in other forums and they go unregulated - people who find offense are usually people who dont know anything about the net along with that why would you go to a site that has "NSFW" content even as avatars...there's a reason why its called...Not Safe For Work..

Anyways, cant you block avatars like signatures?

avatars are supposed to be safe for work on this site... at least that is what the forum rules say.  Thats why they have a NSFW section, so people that want to post that crap can go there.  

and no, you block signatures, but not avatars...

I haven't seen any NSFW avatars on this site, by deffinition.  There may be avatatrs that embarase by association, but that's your problem & you can't ask the greater community to bend simply to save you having to explain yourself to your girlfriend.

If everyone had hello kitty avatars I'd be embarassed to let anyone see what I'm looking at, but it's on me that I'm looking at it, no one's forcing my hand.



gergroy on 19 February 2013
chris_wing said:
gergroy said:
BasilZero said:
There are far worse avatars in other forums and they go unregulated - people who find offense are usually people who dont know anything about the net along with that why would you go to a site that has "NSFW" content even as avatars...there's a reason why its called...Not Safe For Work..

Anyways, cant you block avatars like signatures?

avatars are supposed to be safe for work on this site... at least that is what the forum rules say.  Thats why they have a NSFW section, so people that want to post that crap can go there.  

and no, you block signatures, but not avatars...

I haven't seen any NSFW avatars on this site, by deffinition.  There may be avatatrs that embarase by association, but that's your problem & you can't ask the greater community to bend simply to save you having to explain yourself to your girlfriend.

If everyone had hello kitty avatars I'd be embarassed to let anyone see what I'm looking at, but it's on me that I'm looking at it, no one's forcing my hand.

I agree none of the avatars are NSFW exactly, I was just correcting basil.  

Look, the only thing I'm suggesting is that people have avatars that are in good taste.  Avatars that exist purely to get a rise out of people should probably not be allowed. 

If everybody agrees that avatars are fine the way they are, then so be it.  There is an easy solution for me not to have to deal with it, and that is to stop coming to this site.  Which I guess I will do...



painmaster212 on 20 February 2013

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Step 2: Right click on the image that you no longer want to see ever again.

Step 3: Click on the Ad Block option that comes up and in the pop screen click block this ad.

Step 4: Move the slider that comes up intill the image is gone and DONE!



JoeTheBro on 20 February 2013

Yeah I have problems with Nsanity's avatar. Whenever I'm reading his posts I have an internal struggle trying to look at the words without getting distracted by his avatar.

Also I've got a new avatar just because of this thread!!!



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