Ugh... New TH look?

[I]

Why should I have to? That's ridiculous, never assume someone has to make even a tiny extra effort to overcome ridiculous things as a solution. Make it opt-in if someone wants a simple thing like a text conversation to be bloated beyond reason, not opt-out.

At the risk of being offensive, you are part of the problem. A avatar, and grapical sig, is a shallow senseless waste of space, if you want something personalized then let it be the decor in your home, not every single post others have to look at. It's called consideration of others.

Do whatever you want, just know that I and others consider it senseless, a sign of lower intelligence. Children need senseless icons to try to fit in and convey some image of themselves. Grown adults let their realtime thoughts convey that. Redundant non-applicable anything, text or graphics, is just stupidity.

 

[I]

I should apologize for my last post, it was more offensive than originally intended, and yet, I will leave that post intact because there is still a point to be made, that even if we are individuals, there is a reasonable limit on how much that individuality should bloat what could otherwise be a streamlined, lower bandwidth, smaller page size, progression of the pertinent information on a topic.

In other words, minimalizing these things, increases the SNR, which is a good thing.

Someone discussing any particular subject, gains nothing in seeing avatars, sigs, etc. There is no useful purpose, it is only bloat.

 

[oneof10]

I, there is a better way to communicate your opinion. I can see you are upset and frustrated. But by risking offending users who are actually the bread and butter of this site is not the best way to handle it. Without users, BoM would shut down this site. I actually agree with your reasoning and have removed my avatar. However, you posts have left a bad taste in my mouth.

 

[randomizer]

You make a good point. The main reason for having a sig is just to have a sig. I can't think of anything else other than "just because I can." Avatars provide a second "identity" than your username so they do at least have more purpose than signatures. I have removed my sig but I'm still keeping the kitteh 😀 Removing the avatar wouldn't reduce my post height much anyway as there is a minimum for each.

 

[Jake_Barnes]

Someone discussing any particular subject, gains nothing in seeing avatars, sigs, etc. There is no useful purpose, it is only bloat.

Dude, I totally agree with you. Avatars are a minor distraction so long as there is size restrictions (which I think I've defined) - but I have seen sites, forums and groups where the actual text (content, discussions) is totally overwhelmed by graphics ... some here know exactly what I'm talking about.

We used to have minimum banner sig sizes, but now we seem to be getting "sig size creep" again. I think I'll start some Moderator conversations about this.

 

[audiovoodoo]

Jake - Turpit would be a good place to start! I already blocked Toms efforts.. 😉

 

[number13]

personally I think this place is going downhill like a first time skiier on a double black hill, and what's with the 2 year old news in the borders?, and the things that I hear about flash games, WHAT IS GOING ON