Yeah, even though in the past you've been warned of large avatar use, you still continue to use them to this day.
He did change it. oglsmm's previous avatar was 190KB, this is about 5KB.
Mofokubuk and myself were banned from using them without warning. Consider yourself lucky.
Bloody hell, how many warnings do you need?!
At least Mofokubik should know the limits quite well, and I would be very surprised if you didn't know them as well.
There's
absolutely no point in warning people who already know that they are breaking the rules (and hence are doing it on purpose), because they obviously are either:
a) Challenging the authority of moderators or administrators on purpose.
b) Trying to use the warning-before-ban thing to their advantage by using obnoxiously large avatars, and taking them down when they get warned. Thus they get to keep their avatars until moderator/administrator bothers to warn them, yet again.
c) Simply ignoring the rules.
d) Too thick to understand the rules.
All four options easily being good enough reason to ban that person from using avatars, IMO. Or for some other punishment, which could be much more severe (FYI: avatar ban for Mofokubik and Rubicant wasn't my first choice), oglsmm's "pretty soon we'll all lose ours" is a pretty good guess.
I don't know if it's because I'm quite a bit older than average poster here, or because I've had the pleasure of getting to know military discipline, with collective punishments and other cool stuff, but in any case my tolerance for pre-schoolish stunts (like this idea of using sex offender mug shots as avatars @ fscking 144x193, no less (that's
4 times the 80x80, or almost
8 times 60x60)), teenage angst, and other such stuff is exceptionally low. In other words; you do not want to annoy me.
If someone hasn't figured it out (or doesn't know) yet; I'm behind the punishment, I pretty much pressured Qhimm to do what he did, using my position as bargaining chip. For slower people: I said that I would leave, once and for all, if there was no punishment. Although there's another side to this coin as well; I wouldn't have left if I didn't get my wish, I would have left because the situation would have been something that I'm not willing to tolerate (like I said when I demanded punishment; I will not moderate a kindergarten). So, no need to be angry at Qhimm, it wasn't his idea.
Had the avatars been smaller than truly outrageous 144x193: I probably would have just warned Mofokubik and Rubicant. Had one of them been someone else than Mofokubik (who has already had a plenty of issues with avatar size and respect for authority) I probably would have just warned Rubicant and the other person.
These forums are moderated in relatively relaxed manner; very few persons have been banned, moderators move threads to correct forums (instead of closing them altogether), newbies don't usually get chewn up for asking FAQ stuff, posting links to copyrighted material usually leads to getting the links removed (instead of user getting banned, or thread deleted) and so on.
This is partly due to 'lowish' member count (remember, there's no pruning, there are lot less active members than registed members), and partly due to the fact that most members seem to be fairly bright, and seem to know basic rules of conduct. BTW, possibly for these reasons this forum is on my TOP-2 list, and quite possibly the best forum I've ever visited.
However, even this forum has rules, and they will be enforced. Because a rule without enforcement is no rule at all.
These rules exist and are enforced so that this forum would be a better place for everyone. If you can't or won't obey these rules you are free to leave. If you break the rules, expect to be punished.
