I do not know if others see it as I am seeing it, that one alone beside the OP post is distracting me from reading, if many members are wearing animated avatar, it will be a distraction, some people still go by disabling avatar and signature, more people will because of this animation thing disable avatar and signature ads because it will be disturbing reading what others are posting, the animation will be appreaing annoying.
Man....I've had avatars and signatures disabled for years. They're two of the things I could never stand about discussion forums in general. On some other forums I've belonged to, signatures can (and often do) take up more space than a member's post. There's one forum I used to lurk on where moderation was nowhere near as strict as it is here, and there were
tons of "+1", "LOL", and similar one-line crap, over and over, but most of the space was taken up by avatars and signatures. Drives me up a wall.
That's just me, though. I get that a lot of people like seeing avatars & sigs, but animated ones? I think that would drive even the calmest, most tolerant person batty.
Which begs the question "Where is theymos?"
I think he still exists, though I don't have any proof other than the PM I got from his account when I got my sMerit allocation upped a few weeks ago. Lol. Makes me wonder if there's any sort of plan in place should he become incapacitated or whatever. As for where he is at the moment, my guess is that he's sipping margaritas on a nice beach somewhere.
