Animated Avatars

[Charles Hunter]

Can we get rid of animated avatars? They are highly annoying when trying to read a thread. I would guess they eat some bandwidth, too.  A couple of other message boards I frequent have banned them.

My apologies if this is always the subject of a thread here, but I'm not scrolling through 7 pages of titles ...

[JPalmer]

Lol, there is only one person I know who has an animated avatar on here that I can recall. Have you tried telling them directly?

[Charles Hunter]

I see 2 regularly - simms3 and snaketoz
And, no, I have not confronted them directly.

[Jason]

<----  This guy has an animated avatar...  :-)


Charles, are you viewing the site on your phone/tablet or on a PC?

[Charles Hunter]

OK, 3 

Tabletish - specifically Microsoft Surface Pro 6 with the add-on keyboard

[Jason]

Yeah, on the smaller screens I can see where the avatars might be a bit distracting.

I removed mine for ya

[Snaketoz]

Wow, I wish everything I didn't like would disappear.

[jaxlongtimer]

My first wish for our Jaxson team leaders would be a search function for all the blog posts  .  Trying to find old threads so as not to recreate/repeat the same back and forth or to add updates would be nice.

Thanks for all you do to host this site.  We appreciate the effort!

[Charles Hunter]

My first wish for our Jaxson team leaders would be a search function for all the blog posts  .  Trying to find old threads so as not to recreate/repeat the same back and forth or to add updates would be nice.

Thanks for all you do to host this site.  We appreciate the effort!

Yes! Given a choice, I would continue to manually hide the animated avatars if this site had a functioning search function.

And a better way to provide links - the vBulletin-based boards I'm on allow you to make any word in a post a hot link, instead of having the full URL as visible text.

[Lunican]

Yes! Given a choice, I would continue to manually hide the animated avatars if this site had a functioning search function.

And a better way to provide links - the vBulletin-based boards I'm on allow you to make any word in a post a hot link, instead of having the full URL as visible text.

Here is how you do that:

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[url=http://www.metrojacksonville.com]link text[/url]

[jaxlongtimer]

Just found a couple of more items to look into:

(A) Posted in the "Break Room" but that wouldn't post to the bulletin board.  So, (B) I went to "remove" the post from "Break Room" and reposted under "News."  Received an error message saying I can't remove my own topic. 

[BridgeTroll]

Just found a couple of more items to look into:

(A) Posted in the "Break Room" but that wouldn't post to the bulletin board.  So, (B) I went to "remove" the post from "Break Room" and reposted under "News."  Received an error message saying I can't remove my own topic. 

I removed the Break room  post for you...