does anyone else browse the forums with avatars disabled?

[Eli]

Sigs are pretty much pointless IMO, at least displaying them anyway. I can view your sig with one click, I don't need to see it all the time. Why do I want to see how many miles you've driven your cars every single time you post? Your sig (for example) takes up more space than your actual post (6 lines vs 5). With a widescreen monitor my vertical space is valuable.

Hmm. True. At least you can click on them if you want to see them, I didn't realize that as I've never disabled them.

But my sig is awesome. :awe:

 

[lxskllr]

So that's why you have the avatar of an asshole :hmm:


j/k

Nah, Poe's awesome. I'm just an asshole. You can't rely on avatars exclusively :^D

 

[DominionSeraph]

But my sig is awesome. :awe:

Needs more Kyubey.

 

[jtvang125]

I use opera's Show No Images setting to turn off all images and quickly turn them back on with one click. All I see is a wall of text in boxes.

 

[KeithTalent]

I have everything on. brblx's avatar still makes me laugh every time I see it.

KT

 

[Malak]

I'm actually kinda surprised so many people have avatars and sigs turned off. Seems like you're just depriving yourself of the forum experience.

Same with blocking people. I don't care how much I disagree with someone, I wouldn't block them. Defeats the whole purpose of a discussion forum if you can just live in your own walled off little world and only talk to people that share the same world view as you.

I only block people that intentionally troll or are outright insane. There is at least one clinically insane person on this forum, and countless trolls I'm sure but I don't go into P&N. The few that escape into OT I have blocked. They offer nothing except empty triple posts that don't contribute to discussions.

 

[mugs]

Same with blocking people. I don't care how much I disagree with someone, I wouldn't block them. Defeats the whole purpose of a discussion forum if you can just live in your own walled off little world and only talk to people that share the same world view as you.

I don't block people because I disagree with them, I block them because it's a waste of my time to read anything they have to say. I never agree with dmcowen, but he's unintentionally entertaining so I don't have him blocked.

SandEagle and spaceman have never posted anything that's worth reading, so I don't let them waste my time. I have 9 people blocked out of thousands, I'm not depriving myself of anything or living in a "walled off little world."

 

[MovingTarget]

Another vote for avatars on, but inline images off. I've been tempted to turn avatars off, but it helps for quick poster recognition when scrolling down quickly (say, when returning to a thread after a while for responses).

We should just go back to purely fusetalk avatars.

 

[lokiju]

Avatars off. Same reason. Looks less questionable at work.

 

[cKGunslinger]

Avatars off, once they went custom. I don't even know what mine is.

Signatures off, too. It always pisses me off when some people break into a conversation about how awesome someone sig is, but never quote it. So I have to look at their profile, which always opens in the same window, instead of a new tab.. Gah! Life is so hard!

 

[Soundmanred]

No signatures (most are just reused famous quotes, "rigs" or other people's posts that they though were funny. Not interested.)
No avatars. (I can read the name if I need to know who wrote a post.)
Wish I could block ponies.

 

[Kev]

I turn off signatures, avatars, and in-line images.

this. I also have a stylish setting so the forums don't look like cat vomit.

 

[iamwiz82]

But mine is amusing...

 

[Ken g6]

Avatars on, but anyone whose avatar I don't like, or who doesn't have an avatar, gets reiconized. :sneaky:

I just tried turning the forum's avatars off, and I can barely tell the difference!

 

[Jeff7]

Whilst browsing at work (on break/lunch, dammit), I turn off inline pictures and avatars.

Avatars on, but anyone whose avatar I don't like, or who doesn't have an avatar, gets reiconized. :sneaky:

I just tried turning the forum's avatars off, and I can barely tell the difference!

I don't suppose there's a script like this that can disable both avatars and embedded pics?

 

[HamburgerBoy]

On most forums I turn avatars off, but I don't bother here for whatever reason.

 

[lxskllr]

I don't suppose there's a script like this that can disable both avatars and embedded pics?

Me thinking about it really quick, it probably wouldn't be hard to do it with a wildcard for common image extensions.

 

[Ken g6]

I don't suppose there's a script like this that can disable both avatars and embedded pics?

Well, not in the same script, but...

If you edit The Reiconizer source, there's an example line of code:

iconPathSub['http://forums.anandtech.com/customavatars/'] = 'auto';

Enable that, and all custom avatars will disappear (to be replaced with the default Wikipedia pictures). The one above that kills all the DragonsFury avatars too, if you want that. I didn't include one to kill the old forum avatars, but I'm sure you could figure it out from the examples if you really wanted to.

As for disabling inline images...

@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);

@-moz-document url-prefix("http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php") {
#posts td.alt1 div img { display:none !important }
}

@-moz-document url-prefix("http://forums.anandtech.com/newreply.php") {
#collapseobj_threadreview td.alt1 img { display:none !important }
}

I think that Stylish style oughtta do it.