Can we do away with animated avatars, page 3
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reply posted on 11-5-2008 @ 04:57 PM by Ellipsis
reply to post by sherpa


Yep, however there will be many many people who don't read this thread and my fear is they will be bothered or somehow detered from a post or thread I participate in because of it =)

It doesn't bother me to change it, was a little difference anyways.




reply posted on 11-5-2008 @ 09:43 PM by Conspiracy Theorist
reply to post by labyrinth101


Thank you. Very much.

Now I can read a thread without ending up with a headache from the demon (read animated) avatars.

CT


reply posted on 11-5-2008 @ 10:26 PM by D.Wolf
reply to post by zysin5


Ehrm, it is nice that everyone can express themselves and I don’t care if one does but here’s the but. I don’t like this crap polluting my screens. My computer is not some kind of public restroom. So one can express his but to the moon as long as I can close the curtains and are not being forced to watch the crack between the cheeks.

I think the OP had a good point posting his thread and what’s more, it created a solution! Now you can do your ballet and I can freezz frame. Everybody happy. No harm done, no danger no manipulating no mind control but most of all, no animation! What a world.


reply posted on 11-5-2008 @ 10:41 PM by zysin5
reply to post by D.Wolf


I guess you didnt read my post.. Many giffs give me greif. while trying to fous on said woredig of the post..

So yes lets just bann all giff files, an say to hell with ones self expression. is that what you want to hear..

Or did you read my post, and belive that there are 2 sides to all to stories.

Should we bann them all together, or just go with the T&C of the given rule of thumbhere...
Yes some giffs are whatwe call symbols and sigals. that can manipulate ones feelings of a subect...
This lead us into a grea debate... Thus do you feel the T&C shoul be rewritten to suit those who are offeneded, Or better yet taken off chose, becasue they choose to look at an avatar, not not the message of said poster.. Yes I agree this has 2 sides to the story..
I will not deny that... But I will not deny many force their ideas upon others becasue they personally do not feel its right..

What is right for you is not right for someone else bottom line..
Yet I am willing to conside both sides, and not be bias just becasue I am an artist, and do not confrom..
And I do not confrom becasue other disagree... But becasue I personally dont agree... Everyone has their own right to what they feel.
I do not deny that fact.. Is there any middle ground we can agre upon?
Or are you set in your ways, and I am set in my ways..

My question.. What is our commman ground.. Where we can come to an agreement.. I have no desire to be one sided.. I never have.
I can agree to disagree.. Yet if you make a soild point I will be more than happy to consider that point, and apply it to my life.


reply posted on 11-5-2008 @ 11:34 PM by D.Wolf
I guess you didnt read my post..


Guessed wrong, didn’t watched the vid though.

So yes lets just bann all giff files, an say to hell with ones self expression. is that what you want to hear..


nope

Or did you read my post, and belive that there are 2 sides to all to stories.


Not to all stories. There are stories with far more and there are also stories with none or less.

Should we bann them all together, or just go with the T&C of the given rule of thumbhere...
Yes some giffs are whatwe call symbols and sigals. that can manipulate ones feelings of a subect...
This lead us into a grea debate... Thus do you feel the T&C shoul be rewritten to suit those who are offeneded, Or better yet taken off chose, becasue they choose to look at an avatar, not not the message of said poster.. Yes I agree this has 2 sides to the story..
I will not deny that... But I will not deny many force their ideas upon others becasue they personally do not feel its right..


I don’t believe the OP was trying to get the ‘expressions’ banned, he was mere seeking a solution and this has been given. A case well closed but for this one has to read all the way thrue the thread and this bridges me to my question to you>: Did you do such outrageous reading or did you just skip the fun part of reading the expressions of all the participants of this topic?

What is right for you is not right for someone else bottom line..
Yet I am willing to conside both sides, and not be bias just becasue I am an artist, and do not confrom..
And I do not confrom becasue other disagree... But becasue I personally dont agree... Everyone has their own right to what they feel.
I do not deny that fact.. Is there any middle ground we can agre upon?
Or are you set in your ways, and I am set in my ways..


There is no left or right, there is a middle and this means you may express yourself and I may not watch it.

My question.. What is our commman ground.. Where we can come to an agreement.. I have no desire to be one sided.. I never have.
I can agree to disagree.. Yet if you make a soild point I will be more than happy to consider that point, and apply it to my life.


My solid point is. Everyone can make gifs now knowing it is not annoying anyone thanks to this thread because when one presses ESC, all animation seizes. (Totaly kewl) This making me happy and you not knowing I press this secret button on my state of the art keyboard are happy cause you have your expression not taken away from you (what I think would not have happened anyway.)


reply posted on 11-5-2008 @ 11:40 PM by zorgon
reply to post by labyrinth101


Now how come no one ever told me THAT



Genius... pure Genius... Thanks



reply posted on 11-5-2008 @ 11:55 PM by theRiverGoddess
getting rid of animated avatars is ~THE BEST IDEA~ i have seen for the site in a LOOOOOONG time....

The avatars are getting worse as the ability to animate improves.

Something calm like a softly flickering fire is ok, but when 2 faces flash back and forth as if in argument blinking in your face it is to annoying for me to even bother reading the post.......

It is a PROVEN FACT that watching fast blinking changing lights can send some people into a seizure and this is harmful to those people. I can see some kid coming to this site and going into a grand mall because of some ridiculous avatar some member here just 'has to use' because they think its neat

I actually have written a u2u to a few people begging them to take the blinky av down, as I like the way they post and want to continue to read what they write. When they refuse I have to put them on block.
I am gaining a block list based solely on flashy bright blinky avatars that give me a headache while I am on ATS......I think this is sad as many of these posters have interesting things to say........

Blinky flashy avatars area as bad if not WORSE than adds that we complain about....worse in the sense that they are forced upon us if we want to read what the person has to say, and the only way to avoid them is to block the poster.

Sorry to rant on here but this is a serious issue for me on this site as the last few months I get headaches trying to stick with a thread full of these avatars.

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