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View Poll Results: What do you think of Animated Avatars?
I like them. 10 10.53%
I loathe them. 28 29.47%
I don't care either way. 57 60.00%
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Old 21st Mar 2022, 8:31 am   #1
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I have noticed that animated (moving) Avatars are starting to find their way onto the forum and wondered what others think of them.

Personally I find them so distracting as to make a thread where a contributor has an animated avatar unreadable. I either navigate away, or if the thread is really fascinating I resort to holding a piece of paper against the left hand side of the screen to hide them.

I don't want to be "dog in a manger" about this but it's a real problem for me.

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Old 21st Mar 2022, 7:40 pm   #2
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Default Re: Animated Avatars

With most web browsers animated GIFs can be disabled (which will freeze them on the first frame) either by adjusting settings or using add-ons.

For example this page explains how to do so for many popular browsers https://www.pcmag.com/how-to/how-to-...n-your-browser
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Old 22nd Mar 2022, 8:45 am   #3
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Thanks for the link Paul, that worked on Firefox.
Thanks also to Station X for adding a poll.

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Old 22nd Mar 2022, 10:31 am   #4
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Default Re: Animated Avatars

Yes, I also find them extremely irritating and like the OP, have to cover them up before I can read a post. Luckily, there are not many members that have them, so it's not really a huge problem.

I had no idea (like so many things with computers!) that you could disable them, so I will give that a go.

It is though, a very minor irritation with an otherwise superb forum!

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Default Re: Animated Avatars

I have said it doesn't bother me which is true , I don't have one and don't intend to create one.
I would say some are amusing but the novelty wears off once seen a few times.

I do accept that they can be annoying to some members.

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Old 22nd Mar 2022, 12:41 pm   #6
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Having selected the I loathe them option I suddenly realised I was using one myself.... now corrected, but it was a pretty mild version. Some of the ones you see elsewhere drive me nuts, UKVR seems to avoid those.

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So, you've become a silent key?
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Old 22nd Mar 2022, 12:53 pm   #8
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I find that members who use animation are pretty sensible about it. Although I'm not a great fan of animated avatars, I can't think of a single one here that is seriously intrusive, unlike lots of other places on the net. I don't mind a morse key going up and down or a couple of rotating tape reels.

Anyone who feels that an avatar is unacceptable for any reason is welcome to report it to the moderators, who will discuss it and possibly take action.
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Old 22nd Mar 2022, 1:19 pm   #9
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Default Re: Animated Avatars

I have not bothered to vote because there is no option for "can sometimes be distracting".
There is a non electronic site I use that has loads of Facebook and other flashing stuff on the right hand side.
There is a long pull down in the forum software with lots of options to switch bits of the animation on and off.
The software we have here may be a bit too old to have animation switches.
Newer software has other quirks that make an upgrade pointless unless it provides better data security or bigger images.
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Old 22nd Mar 2022, 2:42 pm   #10
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I nearly took the minority position of "I like them", because the only one I can recall ever noticing here is a wandering fly (?) which if anything puts a smile on my face. Evidently there are others I'm not noticing - either that or Waterfox Classic with default settings fails to show them - so "don't care either way" claimed my vote.

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Old 22nd Mar 2022, 6:28 pm   #11
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I get the odd house-fly on my PC monitor, and that fly aviator never fails to fool me, so it's amusing more than annoying.

I hope my animated GIF avatar is seen as I intended, as TV nostalgia, it's also geographically appropriate for a lifelong Mancunian, as well as a nod to the group that employed me for a quarter of a century.

I have seriously considered changing it to the old ABC Weekend Television animation, on Saturdays and Sundays only, as ABC is arguably even more nostalgic in this part of the world, for those of us old enough to remember it.
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Old 22nd Mar 2022, 7:47 pm   #12
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Take away the don't mind option. People can't sit on the fence then 😀

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Yes they can. They can simply not vote, as I have done, given that my feeling depends very much upon the individual avatar.
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I like the fly too - from a very helpful member on all things Racal.
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