Quote by LilimIt's said that
our avatars should be at most 30 KB in size. So I thought that there's no way to upload bigger ones. Now I see that
I was mistaken. There're users with 500 KB and bigger avatars! Hey I know that some animated avatars are nice, but
some users have part of the movies, anime, etc. converted to gif format and are using it as an avatar. I know that
there's a bandwidth problem on MT server. It's nothing strange in this situation!
A lot of these avatars were uploaded to the servers before the server began enforcing limits on avatar size. If the user
doesn't change their avatar, it will remain in the system. However, avatar bandwidth consumption is fairly minor
compared to scan bandwidth consumption. It IS annoying when you're viewing a long forum thread and avatars
won't load, but I don't think it's a major situation that'll ultimately impact the functionality of
the site. However, rules ARE rules, and perhaps there should be more enforcement of avatar size (ie dump any avatar
above the size limit, or asking members with large avatars to change them.)
Quote by LilimAnother thing is
about signature images. It's said that they should be 486x60 in dimensions. Well I don't mind people having
500x60 sig images, but one day I saw a user with sig that was 500x130 (or even bigger). It's starting to get
annoyng when sig is longer than actual post >.>
Again, these may have been uploaded before the server began enforcing restrrictions. The same suggestions I posted above
apply here.
Quote by LilimOne another thing.
Some users (lots of them) are using their "piece" of profile page where they post all the quizzes, games,
pisc, etc. they've found. I don't mind if someone has a pic or two (of course not a huge ones) on their
userpages but when I must wait about minute or even longer to load such page and then I must scroll for ages thru this
"dump" I'm starting to think about exiting this profile page and stop visiting this
user.
There aren't a lot of restrictions on userpage content. It is ultimately at the discretion of the user. I'm
sure a lot of folks will say since it is their userpage, they should be able to post what they want, but you can always
try asking them to change in the name of usability. There is the option to limit the amount of characters a person can
use in their userpage content, but that may be too restrictive. I'm not sure how effective it would be. Userpage
content has little to do with the MT bandwidth since images are hosted off-site; Sheqel has implemented some coding to
restrict any dangerous scripts already, so there's little impact on functionality. Just usability. I hate superlong
pages with 10 songs and 20 quiz results too, but then again, I'm always one to go for the KISS factor.
Quote by LilimSo. We have rules
here on MT, rules that are disobeyed by some users. Nothing new - I know. But we should try to change this! We - users -
should work with mods.
What do you think about this? What's your opinion? How do you think we can change these things?
I think the first thing to be done is to contact the users disobeying, asking them to change things voluntarily.
However, unless these issues are a problem on the MT server and its functionality, I can't see making these items
mandatory because the issue is not pressing enough to force everyone in line.