What's the story on Avatars and Signatures?

August · #1 03-04-2014, 08:02 PM

As I'm scrolling on these threads, on my lunch hour, multiple times today I've had to quickly scroll past people's posts who contain GIFs of inappropriate content.

I know there's no nipple, but a GIF of a woman with large breasts, in a bikini, smashing them together, is not 'Safe for work' for me. Nor is a woman on all 4s shaking her bare ass.

Look, I can set a filter for imgur, and I can use adblock to block these type of ads. But, I have to see them at least once. I guess I can also disable sigs and avatars by default as well.

What's the consensus here? Don't infringe upon our rights to display slightly NSFW avatars/sigs? Should there be some moderation here? I'm at the point where I just have to, you know, actually work while I'm at work instead of browsing forums.

Not intended to be Rants and Flames material. Legitimate concern/question.

Asap · #2 03-04-2014, 08:04 PM

Disable signatures.

Swish · #3 03-04-2014, 08:06 PM

I think maybe 1 in 50 of my gifs are that kind of content partly for those reasons. Sad that the sig size got nerfed...some of the best SFW gifs out there look terrible shrunk down.

Swish · #4 03-04-2014, 08:07 PM

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Disable signatures.

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Why not just disable the forums? They've lost so many features already [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

loramin · #5 03-04-2014, 08:07 PM

I for one would like to see a "Safe for Work" restriction on gifs in the forums. I think a lot of people read the forums at work, and as you said it's a real issue when someone walks behind you.

To those who would say "but I like looking at bouncing jugs": if you want to see titties go to a porn site. This forum is (supposed to be) about Everquest.

August · #6 03-04-2014, 08:12 PM

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Disable signatures.

I mentioned that, however it's also avatars. Peatree had a certain asian bobbing around.

This is a forum about Everquest. Is it really too much to ask that sigs/avatars remain SFW?

There is a NSFW portion of the forums, it seems ludicrous to me that we allow NSFW material (including sigs) to wander outside of it.

BigHurb · #7 03-04-2014, 08:15 PM

tight ass you can disable signatures AND avatars i have both off now its glorious ... thats not gonna solve ur problem being ashamed of ur body though

Asap · #8 03-04-2014, 08:16 PM

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Originally Posted by August [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I mentioned that, however it's also avatars. Peatree had a certain asian bobbing around.

This is a forum about Everquest. Is it really too much to ask that sigs/avatars remain SFW?

There is a NSFW portion of the forums, it seems ludicrous to me that we allow NSFW material (including sigs) to wander outside of it.

I see your point, but you could easily solve the issue by disabling signatures, instead of having someone heavily moderate the forums to make sure someone doesn't have a signature or avatar that offends you

August · #9 03-04-2014, 08:20 PM

I wouldn't call it 'heavy moderation'. If someone links porn to the forum, it gets scoured.

There aren't a ton of offenders, mainly repeat ones that are typically banned repeatedly already.

Oh and to be clear, it's not 'offensive' to me. I'm not whining from a moralistic high ground. I'm whining from a place of 'I don't want to get fired because someone sees me looking at EVERQUEST forums when some boobs pop out.

BigHurb · #10 03-04-2014, 08:21 PM

sounds like u hang around an oppressive environment... what makes that worth it do you have a good life