Question about animated avatars and signatures
 

This is a question on forum policy. I am not attempting to discuss my ban situation specifically, just the rule under which someone may be banned.

Where is it stated that animated avatars and sigs are not allowed? From what I read on the top of each forum:

"Post Reporting and Account Rules
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Also..I see you are not supposed to discuss specific banned members, but are we really not allowed to discuss bans and duration/cause in general???:bow:

GLHF

jsut in case i get perma banned for the question, thanks everyone for being helpful in my previous posts. I really enjoy the community you guys (the drivers) create.

GG

anyone?? mod or anyone else?

@Hachiroku

I've never banned for this nor do I know if a rule is written for it somewhere.

Regardless of whether it is a bannable offense, I find animated avatars and signatures to be very annoying. I don't want to have to load 10 people's animated gifs everytime I open a thread.

pretty sure an animated gif uses a negligible amount of system resources to load, not sure what kind of computer you are running that would struggle loading 5-10 gifs and slow down your scrolling speed or somehow otherwise distract you.

But that is a personal opinion anyway..my question is where is it written in the rules of this forum that they are not only not permitted, but a banable offense.:search:

If you're on mobile it takes time and bandwidth to load all the gifs, and it messes up scaling of the page.

You have read the rules, you have quoted the rules, you know it isn't in the rules. There is, however, forum etiquette and having a larger or very long (secs) animated GIF in your signature that can easily be over 1 meg to load is very annoying. Lots of animated GIFs can definitely slow down a browser as well.

This could be a problem here, I understand this. I don't understand why uploading an image in .GIF format is even allowed at all if this is a concern. I know not all GIF images are animated but still could eliminate the issue with minimal negative impact.

I understand etiquette, but there is a distinct difference in etiquette and rules where one should only be held accountable to a certain degree for each. I agree rules are law and should have consequences if broken, and I have no problem following the rules of a forum otherwise I wouldn't bother using it. My problem is being reprimanded over something without any warning that it would be unacceptable.

I know they can't make a rule for everything someone could do here..for example, I don't think it's in the "rules" that you will be banned if you were some kind of hacker and modified people's posts or changed everyone's avatars to an ad or something, but that's still obviously something the person would be IP banned for. We are talking about a forum avatar though here, so let's keep the conversation in context.

Also, I am trying to locate another set of rules that I wasn't aware of, maybe a more detailed one besides the ones on the top of each forum. Or perhaps some rules that appear when you are signing up initially. My goal is to make sure things are clear for everyone, not to rabble rouse or make rhetorical questions with no positive outcome.

This I agree with.

Technically anything can result in a ban. There is no HR department here. This is not a public service.


Just saying.