What's the story on Avatars and Signatures?

[Ofaelol]

Just disable sigs?

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

Right, but then you'd miss out on Swish's daily gifs.

[Swish]

Even if they disabled sigs I've still got the "Everyone loves gifs!" thread in RnF.

Oh wait, you'd have to read RnF... [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Gaffin 7.0]

you mad?

[drktmplr12]

OP, you can put offenders on your ignore list. Won't be hard since there are only like 2 or 3. This way you can still see useful sigs. In all reality, Gaffin doesn't provide any meaningful content so you won't be missing a thing ignoring him. Just need to add 8.0 when 7.0 gets banned.

[tristantio]

Everyone cool if I use goatse as my sig?

[Fett]

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

Everyone cool if I use goatse as my sig?

Around here, I thought this was not just cool, but actively encouraged.

[Shaakglith12194]

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

Everyone cool if I use goatse as my sig?

Go for it. You don't have the guts.

[Fett]

Look guys, I know before I said that I was against making unnecessary rules and all that jazz. The truth is I also read these forums at work, and am running into the same sort of issues as OP. Since I'm new here I was trying to be one of you guys and go with the crowd, but I feel I should really make my position known on this.

These sig images that are being posted are really NSFW, and quite frankly degrading towards women. We live in a society where images of this nature have become the norm, and that is just not acceptable. We should all be taking a stand against these images being posted with such frequency, and the frank disregard of respect towards our better halves.

I actually have run into this problem on other forums I browse as well, and had previously made a Youtube video rant about it. If anyone's interested they can view it here.

I've received a fair amount of hate comments on that video. If you have any reasonable thought out arguments to make, I'd love to hear it there to offset some of the crap I've received.

[Swish]

View the forum on your phones instead? Forumrunner etc?

There's always alternatives.

[Shaakglith12194]

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

Look guys, I know before I said that I was against making unnecessary rules and all that jazz. The truth is I also read these forums at work, and am running into the same sort of issues as OP. Since I'm new here I was trying to be one of you guys and go with the crowd, but I feel I shouldn't really make my position known on this.

These sig images that are being posted are really NSFW, and quite frankly degrading towards women. We live in a society where images of this nature have become the norm, and that is just not acceptable. We should all be taking a stand against these images being posted with such frequency, and the frank disregard of respect towards our better halves.

I actually have run into this problem on other forums I browse as well, and had previously made a Youtube video rant about it. If anyone's interested they can view it here.

Degrading towards women? No one is forcing them to do anything. Maybe I'm wrong, I kind of thought women were thinking, reasoning human beings with the ability to decide what situations they place themselves in and in what ways they allow themselves to be treated. Why is a suggestive picture of a woman degrading but a suggestive picture of a male is not? Get off your soap box, women are people, not helpless creatures that need to be protected from the world.