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10-05-2006, 01:41 PM #1Web Hosting Evangelist
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Avatars
Are avatars against the rules here?
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10-05-2006, 01:46 PM #2Retired Moderator
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They are not enabled, therefore the rules don't come in to play.
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10-05-2006, 01:50 PM #3Web Hosting Guru
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With this crowd of wild hosting people, can you blame them?
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10-05-2006, 02:30 PM #4Web Hosting Master
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Ha! I am guessing that the images would def cause the page load slower and that would be a bad thing. Besides - who in their right mind would want to see my pink hairless white ba'hook'eee
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10-05-2006, 03:07 PM #5Web Hosting Evangelist
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Well most forums have size limits on avatars and signatures, nothing more annoying then an animated ava with a video sig, but still how large is a 50-100px GIF? Less then 10 kb, it's not like it would hurt page loading times.
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10-05-2006, 03:53 PM #6Retired Moderator
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10-05-2006, 04:18 PM #7Web Hosting Guru
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Well, we might see a lot of professional hosting logos.
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10-05-2006, 06:20 PM #8Eternal Member
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WHT loads too slowly already, we don't need any more images, regardless of their small file size, to slow it down more. JMHO
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10-05-2006, 08:43 PM #9Web Hosting Evangelist
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What's the max number of posts on a page, 10? Thats 10x 10kb max if you only allow GIFs at 100 pixels, which is a whopping 100kb, not going to be killing anyone's machine.
I do see your point about it making a board look unprofessional though, I agree when it comes to obnoxious graphical signatures and such, but I don't know about avatars, maybe I guess.HostingChoice - Shared and Reseller Hosting
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10-05-2006, 08:50 PM #10Retired Moderator
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Thats 10x 10kb max if you only allow GIFs at 100 pixels, which is a whopping 100kb, not going to be killing anyone's machine.Steve
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10-05-2006, 08:53 PM #11Web Hosting Evangelist
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Who's getting 4k a second on dialup?
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10-05-2006, 08:57 PM #12Retired Moderator
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What speed would you say people get on dialup? I used to connect at around 44-48,000bps which is 4-5k download speed.
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10-05-2006, 08:58 PM #13Web Hosting Evangelist
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I haven't had dialup in years so I really don't know, but there's no way it's 4-5k a sec, that would take years to download anything.
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10-05-2006, 09:04 PM #14Retired Moderator
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Well do the calculations yourself! If we lived in a magical world where we could connect at the top speed of 56k that is still only a 7KB download speed. I've never managed to connect at much more than 48k and downloads would be around 4-5KB/s.
And yes, it did take a while to download things!Steve
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10-05-2006, 09:06 PM #15Web Hosting Evangelist
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What equation is this where an 1/8th of your bandwith is the fastest you can download at? Honestly I don't know that much about the subject, just wondering how you reached that conclusion.
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10-05-2006, 09:09 PM #16Retired Moderator
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8bits (b) = 1byte (B)
Pretty basic computingSteve
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10-05-2006, 09:11 PM #17Web Hosting Evangelist
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Haha guess I skipped that stage then, I still can't believe that the max download speed you can get is 5k a sec though, that's ridiculous.
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10-05-2006, 09:12 PM #18Disabled
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how about enabling them, and having the display turned off by default?
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10-05-2006, 09:14 PM #19Web Hosting Evangelist
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Sounds like a good idea to me
and I HATE this flood controlHostingChoice - Shared and Reseller Hosting
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10-05-2006, 09:20 PM #20Retired Moderator
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Originally Posted by HC-Josh
how about enabling them, and having the display turned off by default?Steve
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10-05-2006, 09:25 PM #21Web Hosting Evangelist
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I don't really care that much, the place is just kinda dull though, that would liven it up a little IMHO. I'd rather get that flood control reduced to 60 seconds though...
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10-05-2006, 09:28 PM #22Retired Moderator
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Flood control has also been discussed to death before. If anything it would go up in the future, not down!
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10-05-2006, 10:47 PM #23Web Hosting Evangelist
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Why? What is a 90 second flood control going to prevent that a 60 second wouldn't?
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10-06-2006, 12:19 AM #24
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How many more posts would you have had if it was 60 seconds?
57.31 posts per day at 90 seconds.
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They have excessive and un-necessary rules here, I've noticed alot.
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