Yes, Avatars have been re-enabled.

If you abuse them, two things will happen:

a) You'll be banned from the server
b) You'll likely lead to avatars being disabled again

Please act with consideration regarding avatars: Nothing obscene, nothing racy, nothing offensive. When using avatars, keep the following in mind:

a) Children use these boards.
b) People use these boards from work.

So obviously, think of things that you wouldn't want your kids to see, or wouldn't want their parents to see them seeing. And the things you probably wouldn't want your boss seeing over your shoulder.

On that note, a few more things:

a) We are no longer allowing avatar uploads, due to abuse. If the offending content is hosted on our server, our ISP can hold us responsible.
b) So, avatars are now 'remotely' hosted. You'll need some webspace (there's lots of free places, I'm sure someone can start a thread listing it) where you can drop your avatar.

Additionally, to prevent spammers, user activation is now required. This doesn't need admin approval, but you will need to activate via email with any new account. Previously this was not required.

Also, the time between posts has been upped to 2 minutes. I'm sorry if this puts a damper on the more prolific of you posters but it will help reduce spam. We can play with moving that time limit down in a few days if it's really that much of a problem.

Apart from that, have fun, be responsible, and most of all: don't forget to poing!

Huzzar!

Wizz.

I was soooooo happy that my dad came into my room to see if I was alright. YAYAYAYAYAYAYAY!

We aim to please. But we usually miss and hit the wrong person :)

err are there no longer limits on avatars? I saw one that was huge.

Should be 100x100 max, 10kb.

Whoo hoo!!! :)

Pictures make things better :)

Now we need to add and update some more emoticons >.> Like a whole cast of them!

Yeah, you can get extra large avatars since they are hosted off site.

You need to put in some script that checks the size of each picture before downloading it. That will increase download time though...


I think we should start an avatar review page, where all the new avatars are displayed and trusted members of the forum could go through and check to see if they are up to standard before they are accepted. Then the forum members could also flag ones that need Mod attention. Of course, this would suffer from the same weakness as the size constrants... But then you could host them again!

I'll look into this.

but I'll also state this:

If I catch people doing it, they'll find themselves banned :)