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[Crazed Rabbit]

This took 11kb. I think somewhere between 10 and 15 kb would be a good limit (maybe even, say...11kbs?)

Personally, I'd like to see the avatars retain some amount of 'Orgness', relating in history to some way, a pretty wide swath, methinks. And avoiding cartoonishness would be nice too.

Crazed Rabbit

[Quid]

I would like to see custum avatars but all uniform in size. Furthermore, a certain theme should be kept, i. e. TW theme.

10kb - 15kb seems to be a reasonable suggestion.

Quid

Ps: 500 posts in two and a half years; not bad at all !

[Craterus]

I would like to see custum avatars but all uniform in size. Furthermore, a certain theme should be kept, i. e. TW theme.

10kb - 15kb seems to be a reasonable suggestion.

Quid

Ps: 500 posts in two and a half years; not bad at all !

Hehe, I'm 815? (i don't know exact number, haven't checked recently) posts in 4 and a half weeks; not bad at all, lol .

I think custom avatars would be good but with a TW theme (maybe people could put their username under the portrait, that sorta stuff) or with a portrait theme, and again patrons could attach their username or other suitable info.

EDIT: 820 posts in fact

[TosaInu]

Hello,

I'm too tired atm to really add something here, but it seems that there's some common and diverging ground here. We'll try to reach a compromise about this soon.

Crazed Rabbit that avatar is below 10 kb. My guess is that you have a different blocksize on your HardDisk from the servers.

[Suraknar]

Well, I think in the present days of Higher Speed Internet, and a Majority of people sporting DSL and Cable connections we could raise a bit the limits to reflect the modern state of the Forums here.

(I am very aware that there are still people using Dial Up, and it is not meant as a demeanor, High Speed connections are not available everywhere or resonably affordable everywhere yet either).

I would tend to say 40k as a Limit, mainly because of the Signature.

I don't think an Avatar is a problem of 10k.

But with all the new features present to us(like many wonderfull Graphics Software of later years, Animated Gifs etc etc), with all the talented people that the modding sections attract, to come in and limit their expression is not a means to invite people in this fine place.

To be honest here, I was never aware of the limits in signature files, and the Avatar I always considered part of the General Theme here and so the restrain of choice never bothered me.

But recently I have been made aware of the Limits on the Signature, and to say the least I was surprised that there was one to begin with, I mean, I can understand if someone has a 200k Signarture file and they spam all over the place it can cause some bandwidth issues specially when more people read the threads, and to say nothing of our Dial up Users.

But on the other hand, we are all so used to the "apparent" freedom the Internet does offer in late years, we are also used to be Spammed with Pop Ups (I use a blocker), and Millions of Pictures, and Animated Content in all the Ubber Dupper new and verry Commercially inclined Websites, and to feel constrained down to 10K of personnal expression in a place which is suposed to give freedom peace and quiet of the Chaotic Internet of today, is somewhat frustrating.

Don't take me wrong, I am a graphics artist, I could make a new Signature in a matter of minutes, the one I have now however was made by a 75 year old friend that learned to use a Coputer and Graphics Software all by himself, at the site it is linked to, and I am just proud for his accomplishment, and have it there in most Forums sites that I register.

If it really offends however please tell me in an official manner and I will re-evaluate to accomodate appropriatelly.

Thank you

[KukriKhan]

Appreciate your input. At 37K, your current sig would meet your suggested limit of 40K.

To meet our current standard (which I must officially request you do, for now - as we have imposed it on the entire org membership, and they have complied), you would lose the (admittedly cool) waving flag:



That image comes in under 10KB, with no appreciable loss of quality, save the flag-waving. As a graphic artist, I'm certain you can do better than I.

[Suraknar]

Well,

Yes I can do good enough I think...But,

It will no longer be the work of my friend if I changed it otherwise, and there is no point Using it in that case to render hommage to his work.

On the Other hand, I understand the rules here, and as a member of quite some time now since Shogun Total War, I have loved this place.

So for now, I will justn (reluctantly) remove it all together, untill the rules are amended and this site comes up to present-day higher speed and content Internet standards.