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Old 11-04-2009, 10:50 PM
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I say only the "Calguns Addicts" get animated avatars.

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where were these gif.'s in the funny gif. thread?

pigeon and locked door are my favorite.
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My avatar is supposed to move - see, it doesn't move.
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Like I said I don't like the movement it is distracting when trying to read, but if there was a way that I could turn it off then I don't care, but then again I could just add the ones that are too bad to my ingore list
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I voted 'No' personally..
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Old 11-05-2009, 10:41 AM
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animated avatars are a terrible idea, extremely distracting, and anyone who uses it should be banned.
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I also believe animated gifs take up more bandwidth, so to heck with that.
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Never have fewer words range so true

I think they are fun but I don't want to see a whole page of them every time I'm on here. Too busy and it sucks surfing sites with ani-gifs on my phone.
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animated avatars are a terrible idea, extremely distracting, and anyone who uses it should be banned.
wait...how the f....
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So, Kestryll, will I get banned if I put a GIF animation in each of my posts?
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I hate animated crap on my screen all the time. It's okay here and there, but animated avatars are too much IMO
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Animated gifs are obnoxious for avatars.

Moreover, it's entirely too easy to have offensive material hidden in an animated avatar to increase the amount of time before it gets caught. e.g. for 30 seconds the image is static, and then it flashes a dong at you. The animated gif spec does allow for different on-screen times of individual frames, and I've seen horrors like this before.
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Waste of bandwidth. Bandwidth costs money. Especially when there are 12,045 active members out of 37, 614+ total.

Of course if you're the host, you can have triple wide avatars
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Waste of bandwidth. Bandwidth costs money. Especially when there are 12,045 active members out of 37, 614+ total.

Of course if you're the host, you can have triple wide avatars
Didn't you read the announcement?
Any of us can have them. The limit got bumped to 100x300 this week.
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Any of us can have them. The limit got bumped to 100x300 this week.
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poor alaskan.
seriously. i'm on a freaking satellite system for my internet. it's OK for things like calguns but sucks when it comes to things like youtube or xbox live.
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Of course if you're the host, you can have triple wide avatars
You're just jealous!

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I say only the "Calguns Addicts" get animated avatars.

Who's with me?
I am down for that.

So how does rocket do it? Small size or what? Or just badass admin powers

I would like to have a sparkle on my gold tooth.
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ME NEXT! ME NEXT! ME NEXT! ME NEXT!
do it yourself. You can have an image that is 300x100

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How about this one?



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You're just jealous!

You can now be 4 times the donkey hat!!!



or 16X!
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Okay, after close examination over the last 15 minutes or so, if I can have this one, I'll be down for animated avatars.

No really, I'm delirious, I mean serious.

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If animated avatars were to return, I would welcome the return of 50freak's mesmerizing avatar from the good old days.
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Were is the pole???
I say NO.
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Were is the pole???
I say NO.
Only allow photos,

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The poll is at the top of the page.
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The poll is at the top of the page.
he sad pole

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