Are you thinking about avatars?
Hope not.
My 2 cents, anyway.
Agreed.
I think avatars are a very mixed ‘blesing’ at best.
HTTP://WWW.ABOVETOPSECRET.COM has them.
I think they are mostly hideous and plenty are plain evil. We wouldn’t have that much of that problem hereon. But they still take up time etc. to load—especially when everyone on a thread has one and for the folks tied to dial-up. Mostly, I find them a distraction and more annoying than anything. I suppose it would be OK if a user could opt out of them on his settings page—opt out of their showing on his screen.
They can be useful in quickly finding a particular user’s post.