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Mourne not your comrades who must dwell / too strong to strive -
Within each steel-bound coffin of a cell, / Buried alive;
But rather mourne the apathetic throng / The cowed, and the meek -
Who see the world’s great anguish and its wrong / And dare not speak.
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Posted by: halo is ok
Firstly, I recognize mods more my their salmon-colored text than by their custom avatars. Secondly, if it's a problem with obscenities then we can always restrict it to older members; Let's say three months or so? Thirdly, it's not going to "require more mods" or anything such as that. It would simply be added to the list of things mods need to look out for. I mean, did the rule against Halo 3 scans or the rules against Rick Roll vids require new mods to enforce? And Fourthly, almost every other forum on the web does this. So it's not like it can't work.
Here's the biggest problem with custom avatars: They are visible constantly, without the user having to do anything. While the current moderators can crack down on scans, and even obscene links, it takes time. If custom avatars were allowed, then we would be forced to see them for at least a little while. While I'm sure most of us could handle it, this site is supposed to maintain some sort of standard, and custom avatars would destroy that chance.
Almost every other forum on the web is smaller than this one, or is usually broken down into many subforums that have their own communities, which are easier to manage. Other sites are very large, but have no standards to enforce really (See SA).
In any case, Achronos said no. In this case, that really is all that matters.