GENIUS IDEA: FORUM CHATBOX

it looks great when you have a full-fill avatar and terrible if it's white background or transparent

Make it optional then?

  Oh yeah! Just testing out this new textbox. Weird, there is a twitter button. How does the My Media button work? Is there a filesize limit?

EMOTICON CONCERNS:
 
first of all, i realized that and are both represented by .rockon. and the first one (which is the inferior one imo) is the only one that actually shows up. sooo that issue should get fixed, because currently i have just hosted this one () on a separate image hosting site in order to post it here. also maybe there's other duplicates too? you should just look over the emoticon list, i guess.
 
oh and does anyone else not like the smiley? it looks almost mockingly happy. i personally think it does not convey what its text form does. i don't think colon-dee should be transformed automatically into that monstrosity. either that, or include a special tag that disables emoticons within that space. currently i've just been unchecking the "Enable emoticons" checkbox in the post options in order to post : D (without the space), but sometimes i want to use some smileys and not others... basically, i'm not a fan of smileys that replace standard text ones. i prefer the type :likethis:
 
also this is maybe more of a personal concern but uhh i think we shouldn't have (and by extension, ) ... i am normally like the least-triggered person ever, but for some reason these ones bother me every time i see them as i'm scrolling down the smiley list...! i think they are unpleasant remnants of a time gone by in this community... i know that could be argued for quite a few of the smileys, but at least some of the others have potentially legitimate and non-offensive uses... but the "emo" ones are just kinda making fun of self-injury, which is an all-too-common struggle, and not a joke. and aside from that, which is more of an "on principle" reasoning, i'm just sayin' that those smileys bother me personally, so... i dunno; i wouldn't be even mentioning it if it wasn't something that i kept having a problem with... so um, thanks in advance!

I don't think the intention behind those emotes was to actually to 'make fun' of self injury but to 'make light' (yeah there is a difference) of a serious issue which a lot of jokes tend to do. For better or for worse.

 
Considering it's an emo joke, no this was definitely to make fun of.  Either way, self-harm images can be incredibly triggering to people who self-harm (which I never have, but I know a lot of people who have and they have spoken up about this many times) so we really don't need it.

I didn't go through the whole topic to see if that had already been covered, but is there a way to turn of display for signatures/avatars in the new forum.  it's just that i sometimes get on while I'm at work and its nice to not have to worry about loading avatars/signatures etc. while you're doing something like that.

i always have signatures turned off, there's a thing to turn them off next to the signatures themselves iirc

Found that .  do you know if there is one for avatars?