so why should we have it if its only a minority that want it.
I'm not even going to explain why that is a horrible argument....
Oh wait, I will.
>Most people don't mind G.I.F.'s
>Some people really want them
>The small minority wants to be able to disable them
And you would really want the option to disable them.
I WANT GIF avatars, but I CARE about the minority that hates them, like you, so that's why I would also want an option to disable them.
if you had epilepsy i can guarantee you would see the very serious harm your suggestion can be, if we do have them in avatars then we need to be able to switch that persons off, the other option would be to handle it like the signatures, but that is far from ideal as i cant see anyone's signatures at all as it blocks them all, so if we do have them we need to be able to just block it animating and not block the image all together.
Have you even READ what I have said? Because my post before just tells you why G.I.F. avatars won't be epilepsy-risky.
In short: "The danger of accidently seeing an epilepsy-trigger in animated G.I.F. avatars is WAY SMALLER then on TV, YouTube, and posts/signatures."
So if you don't want G.I.F.'s because you don't want to see an epilepsy trigger, you better stop watching YouTube, TV, and a lot of modern video games, those are more dangerous!
And again, maximum JUST 10% of all ACTIVE users will use a G.I.F., and ALMOST NO ONE, and NEVER will someone pick an epilepsy-triggerish avatar. The worst you can get, which is also rare is something a little "trippy", which is in no means "flasy".
Okay, I will change my quote then, for the sake of being clear.
-An ability to personally disable any GIF's on the forum would be convenient for some, and needed for others, and is very easy to include in the forum system.