Thank heavens for AdBlock...
Yep, I probably blocked the same one a few minutes ago, lol. Too blinky for my old eyes.
But some are just too cute, like the one Kelly J. P. has - it brightens my day ;D
Quote from: KayCeeDee on October 24, 2012, 09:13:22 AM
But some are just too cute, like the one Kelly J. P. has - it brightens my day ;D
Kelly JP's was the second one to go.....
Animated signatures..... Thankfully, I'm not epileptic. Still, I have to scroll them out of view for sanity.
Sees topic.
Makes sadface.
Commits suicide.
Leaves topic.
Allow me to explain. It is not your avatar I dislike, it is the animation. I find it almost impossible to read the post with an animation banging away a few inches to the left.
A post with an animation next to it may as well be invisible. I would rather read the post because the avatar contributes nothing in comparison. How can I understand your thoughts and feelings if I cannot read them?
Kelly J. P.'s animated avatar is cute, happy, and receives the "Jamie D Seal of Approval."
I couldn't care less what anybody likes or dislikes about anyone or anything anymore
Well, I think we've established that some people find animated avatars disturbing to the eye, and that they have a way available to block them.
There clearly doesn't need to be any debate over this, it's simply affecting different people differently - nobody should take this personally, either way.
You can hide all avatars from within the forum (in the Look and Layout section of your forum profile), or you can use a blocking extension on your browser to individually block images that you don't want to see.
Welcome to the internet.
how do you disable animated gifs here? If you could PM me that would be awesome.
Thanks!
Quote from: Annah on October 27, 2012, 02:19:39 PM
how do you disable animated gifs here? If you could PM me that would be awesome.
Thanks!
I use firefox+adblock and just right click the icon and it will block it. Not that I really want to or care to.
thanks for the info
yep
Quote from: Annah on October 27, 2012, 02:19:39 PM
how do you disable animated gifs here? If you could PM me that would be awesome.
Thanks!
You can also access your site proifile and click the box, Don't show User's Avitars.
The down side of that approach is it blocks all avitars, even your exceptionally pretty face.
I don't find it as much of a distraction while I'm reading.... but some of them are bulky and makes using Opera Mobile on Android seem a but chuggy when I'm scrolling through a thread.
I never thought about using Adblock for blocking avatars though... good to know... I have a few other forums I go to and they have ... less restrictions on what is considered an "appropriate" avatar.
You can also go under your profile, look and layout. Check the "Don't show users' avatars" and "Don't show users' signatures". You will not sere them again.
yeah the down side to that feature is the elimination of all avatars.
I have nothing personal against animated avatars when they cycle that fast it really slows down my mobile device.
I also have an extreme sensitivity to really fast repeating images (to the point where if I stare at it longer than 10 seconds I can be very sick to my stomach) and since my mobile doesn't resize the avatars the animated gifs really stand out.
There was one user who posted an animated .gif (not an avatar...she just added gifs to all her post replies) to every single one of her posts....every single one. There were many times when I had to hurry up and hit back on my browser because it would have made me sick.
You know Annah, I recall reading a paper about that many years ago. What caught my eye was a description of the way some people precieve motion as a sequence of abrupt points. If you think of a ball, flying past, some people don't actually see it as a continual sweep, rather as a series of abrupt, if rather blurry. points.
Apparently, the syndrome was shown to be more acute when the subject is under any sort of stress.
I appreciate this is not quite the same as your experience, but suggests that disturbances of visual preception of these types, may have a genetic element. That is, innate, rather than inherited, if you follow the difference?
I did think about following it up, at the time, to check if there were any links between altered preception and to other conditions, colour blindness for example. I know, for example, that colour blind people, especially those with some types, tend to have good dusk vision, for example. (Humans generally have terrible dusk vision).
Sadly, other priorities arose.