I can't see what the problem is. My Widdle Puppy is highly innofensive and not in the slightest distracting. In fact, I'd go to say he encapsultes my entire persona down to the nth degree. What that says about me, I'm not sure, but he makes me happy, nonetheless.

Apart from this humerous aside, I'm more interested in ATS member's posts content as opposed to their avatars.

And of an occasion, I'll look for specific avatars when assembling a response. Moving ones are very handy for this purpose.

I love animated avatars but not that ones that might cause seizures. Those we don't need. However, the animation makes reading more festive, less boring and by no means distracting. Already I grow tired of looking at mine and have been browsing ATS around for artist to design something based on my current avatar.

I am afraid I have to go with the OP here I do find them distracting to the eye and either read very quickly or scroll past the post.

There is one in particular that gets me for a couple of seconds that resides in their signature I believe it is actually black birds in flight but because it is so small my initial reaction is to bugs on my screen

Well I guess I'm an offender... Most if not all of my Avatars are animated..

I do try and make them subtle, I feel that makes for a better all around impression, but I will admit I have made some annoying ones...

I don't know that I would be upset if no animation was allowed, I guess I would just have to make some without it, (I have a few) but I do understand your point on the really intense flashing ones...

Semper

well i certainly don't want to bother anyone . . . if it's decided that my avatar is distasteful, i won't be offended if i must take it down . . . But like Beamish said; my avatar says a lot about my personality, and the animation (a being shaking it's head) contributes to that.

If the flashing is bothering you or you feel it may induce an epileptic episode press the 'esc' key to freeze the animations on the page. This works in IE and Firefox, not sure about other browsers. Hope this provides some relief until a solution is worked out.

Originally posted by labyrinth101
If the flashing is bothering you or you feel it may induce an epileptic episode press the 'esc' key to freeze the animations on the page. This works in IE and Firefox, ...

Thank You!!!
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Originally posted by labyrinth101
If the flashing is bothering you or you feel it may induce an epileptic episode press the 'esc' key to freeze the animations on the page. This works in IE and Firefox, not sure about other browsers. Hope this provides some relief until a solution is worked out.

Woohoo..thanks labyrinth, what a golden nugget of a tip have a star.

Darn can't do that here.

edit to add someone give that person a round of applause

[edit on 11-5-2008 by sherpa]

Originally posted by labyrinth101
If the flashing is bothering you or you feel it may induce an epileptic episode press the 'esc' key to freeze the animations on the page. This works in IE and Firefox, not sure about other browsers. Hope this provides some relief until a solution is worked out.

Clicking Stop ["X"] accomplishes the same in IE

<----- soothing rain, relax and enjoy or press Esc to stop. Simple enough.

All gifs are great...I like em.

[edit on 11/5/08 by Rhain]

I apologize if my avatar offended or bothered anyone while it was animated, switched it back to regular.