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Post by Frukathka »

I have tried to upload my avatar. I don't know what the deal is, but everytime I log onto these boards an reply, I just see a blank box with an 'X' through it. My avatar is of a cat and is in .jpg format. I use the same avatar on many other internet boards, and it shows up just fine It is definetly small enough and is only 1.49 Kb. Anyone have any ideas why it is not showing up?
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Post by Snake »

I noticed this and meant to comment about it as well, but never got around to it. Could it be that the image has to be a certain height and width in pixels?
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Post by Reginald de Curry »

The Frat stated around startup that avatars would be disabled. Whether that policy will ever change, I can't say.
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Post by Snake »

Ah, that probably was a good idea.
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Post by Wiccy of the Fraternity »

Currently avatars are disabled, but in the future you never know what might happen. For the moment though, only the Infernal Admin has an avatar (though thankfully not of himself, he is far to terrifying to be allowed an actual picture of himself on display).
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Post by Coan »

So any change in the policy?

Why were avatars disabled in the first place? To prevent inappropriate avatars or to cut down on load times?
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Post by Tadelin »

If they were done to cut down on load time, everyone putting an avatar in their signature doesn't help things any. ;)
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Post by Coan »

Well thats part of the reason I'm wondering why the policy is still in effect. People seem to have just found a way around it.
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Post by Frukathka »

Tadelin wrote:If they were done to cut down on load time, everyone putting an avatar in their signature doesn't help things any. ;)
At least I'm not part of the problem.
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Post by Jason of the Fraternity »

Coan wrote:Why were avatars disabled in the first place? To prevent inappropriate avatars or to cut down on load times?
The disabling of avatars was more for the latter reason. Loading times are increased by having pictures included with everyone's posts. We were hoping to cut down on loading delays and post lengths by removing the avatars. However, as Tadelin already pointed out, some members have circumvented this by adding pictures to their signatures.
Coan wrote:So any change in the policy?
This is something that we, the Fraternity members, have been discussing...
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Post by Xanthippe »

If it's up for a vote, count me in as pro-avatar, if only to get rid of those space-wasting, absolutely annoying sig pics.
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Post by Coan »

Ouch. I prefer to think of it as the people with small sig pics paved the way for an avatar revolution.

Plus I needed my sig pic to quickly identify my posts on the rp boards so I wouldn't miss anything posted (which had happened a few times if I hadn't been online for a while).
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Post by Xanthippe »

And, Coan, sorry to have offended you. Not my intention. :( Besides, you haven't had a sig-pic up for a few weeks, right?

Seems like the whole issue has been addressed in the General Forum, though. Yay! :D
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Post by Jason of the Fraternity »

A little harsh, Xanthippe, but we are sympathetic to those of you who have been having problems due to the signature pictures. Our hope is to correct these troubles by adding small avatars, which will appear on the side versus under the posts. This should help with not only loading times but also the general look of the board.
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