Please dont flame me for asking this but I have noticed over the last few weeks some of the Avatars have started to get quite riskee. Dont get me wrong, I love a half naked woman as much as the next guy but 2 issues come up:
1). Many of us try to read these forums while at work. If this trend continues most of us will have to stop. Its not so much an issue of being monitored because the pic wont come up in most tracking programs, however if the avatar is on the screen when a woman walks in and she is offended, then the individual viewing the page is at risk of Disciplinary action and possible loss of job.
2). There are many under aged viewers to you website. If Dakka allows this type of avatar then eventually they may be required to set an age limit on the website if someone complains.

Please note I am not complaining about the avatars. Personally I love boobs (sorry women only boobs hehe) but am concerned with several of the legalities that come up with this type of pic. I no longer look at the site while at work as I dont like the risk and I dont want to see any one else get in any kind of trouble because of it.

just change your profile to hide all avatars....problem solved.

I say this website is perfectly work safe, if this does not suffice.
Hivefleet offers both the problem and solution.

In my oppinion, mammaries are not the problem, strange morals are.

Thanks Hive, I was not aware that was an option and will do that on my profile to prevent any issues.

Not sure why it is a strange morals issue Bla_Ze. I can tell you that with office politics what they are in America (land of the lawsuit) this can be a real issue.

Well, to be fair, Sweden does have a much more relaxed attitude to the human body than prudish UK does!

I know, i was just taking the philosophical approach

It's a good reminder to be careful with avatars. A few are getting close to the line, and everyone should be aware of the option to switch them off.

The moderators discussed several of the avatars, some of which were submitted for approval by the user before they were allowed on the site.

While we did not draw up a specific code of conduct, the basic rules applied are that the nipples and genitals have to be covered up and the pose of the characters should not be overtly sexual.

I think there are one or two avatars around which are in danger of going outside those limits and probably ought to be looked at again. (I'm looking at you, Hivefleet.)

The age level of the site is 12+. The kind of pictues now being used are no worse than would be seen on the cover of a non-top shelf magazine such as Loaded or Maxim. From a general societal view, they are acceptable for accidental public viewing by all ages.

Bikini models could be NSFW in a strict environment.

Reading any non-work related forum could be NSFW in some work environments.

Both those issues are really between you and your management, rather than Dakka's responsibility, I reckon.

As Hivefleet said, there is the option to switch off avatars and this solves the immediate problem.

Hey, I just tried to activate the "Hide all Avatars" function and it isn't working. The toggle is switched to "Yes" and yet I'm still seeing avatars.

Tried looking for a half naked Christmas babe for my Avatar but couldn't find one on the internet anywhere. That's the problem with the web, there just aren't enough pics of scantily clad women to go around.

You've obviously been looking in the wrong places. My avatar, for example, is a fecund naked female already swollen with eggs, just in time for Cthultide.

At work, my guess is, you should be doing some work not looking at miniatures and wargames.....unless, you work for a wargames and miniatures company that is!

My guess is that it'll all calm down a bit after Xmas.

or run Firefox with adblock plus. Right click the avatar, add it to the adblock file by filename

At work, my guess is, you should be doing some work

WHA?!?!?!?! That is Blasphamy!!

LAWL...


duly noted!


Eyeball nipples excused from duty

HiveFleet wrote:just change your profile to hide all avatars....problem solved.

I tried that, it didn't work *to be cross posted to N&B*

Edit: Log out and log back in.

I'll probably turn them back on at home.

Sometimes I browse forums in libraries and such, where such images could be considered 'illegal' by some of the staff there.

Flashman wrote:Tried looking for a half naked Christmas babe for my Avatar but couldn't find one on the internet anywhere. That's the problem with the web, there just aren't enough pics of scantily clad women to go around.

At the risk of furthering a tragic workplace sensitive trend, I think FHM has what you're looking. The UK site does anyway. So go get festive.

I can understand your concerns on the riskee avatars, but heck I work in a GOV't building and post with this one which meets all of dakkas rules for avatars, and really I have no problems. I work in an office with all femals, and myself and one other individuals are male. Then 7 women, and if they have no problem then I feel I have no problem. As long as I stay within the guide lines it is afterall just an avater.

But where else will we see such things on the Internet?

Fishboy wrote:2). There are many under aged viewers to you website. If Dakka allows this type of avatar then eventually they may be required to set an age limit on the website if someone complains.

Pfft.

There are no 'naughy bits' being shown, so it's the same as swimsuits.

Actually, I think the avatars show *less* than what a Wicked Weasel would show...


Anyhow, as an American, it is your right to be prudishly shocked with by what the rest of the world views as normal.


And, finally, my kid saw bare boobs every day for over a year, despite being the very definition of "underage" (i.e. counting age in months, not years).

Of course, for him, it was food, not play, but nevertheless...

The problem I have with these new Avatars is I identify posters who I usually skim by Avatar. Now my eye is immediately drawn to these new sexy avatars, I can't even read the posters name.

I've had to read several posts in their entirety without realizing that I don't want to. Do you have any idea what that's like?!?

If my sexy owl is really distracting people, I can change to something more modest.

avantgarde wrote:The problem I have with these new Avatars is I identify posters who I usually skim by Avatar. Now my eye is immediately drawn to these new sexy avatars, I can't even read the posters name.

Wait until we start animating them...

Had mine checked by a MOD 1st.
I even picked the more mild of the 2 i found

I was going to use a NSFW 40k image with a santa hat edited onto it, but then I remembered that yakface doesn't want heretical xeno boobies on his website.

I browse a couple of forums during my lunch break, but wouldn't browse Dakka as I can get carried away if I get caught up in a thread
Besides, my work blocks Dakka anyway along with most other wargaming sites as it has a blanket block/ban on any website with GAMES in the main keywords; that includes GW main site, but not Bitzbox for some reason So I'm safe from work based booby problems

Most porn pics are too big to fit into the little boxes anyways.


Says the guy that tried.

avantgarde wrote:The problem I have with these new Avatars is I identify posters who I usually skim by Avatar. Now my eye is immediately drawn to these new sexy avatars, I can't even read the posters name.

I've had to read several posts in their entirety without realizing that I don't want to. Do you have any idea what that's like?!?

LAWL

I dunno shadowbrand, I could fit a nice and vulgar "extreme" close up into that little box that wouldn't be safe for work

hmmmm new painting comp :most vulgar avatar????


im joking

So could I but my favorite picture is too big. D:

Its all fun and games until someone loses an eye.

Fun fact of the day: 75% of dakka users worship slaanesh, this is an exception to the internets average of 115%.

To be serious, neither side is valid as this form of reproduction is a waste of valuable biommass and energy; the hive mind realizes this. (or is it a hot guant?)

you'll notice mine is gone. I don't have a problem with that even though I didn't really see the problem. Again, as someone said, it'll die down after christmas - it got a little carried away over in the OT forum...

Horst wrote:I dunno shadowbrand, I could fit a nice and vulgar "extreme" close up into that little box that wouldn't be safe for work

What, you mean the new Ravener's Thorax mounted Deathspitter bit?

Bah, it's all fun and games until someone puts up an avatar with an Imperial eagle covering some lass's otherwise bare chest.

I work at a beach resort and don't see anything more revealing here than what I have seen on a normal day. However, what I see walking around at work is more often than not a lot more offensive to look at.

Grot 6 wrote:Its all fun and games until someone loses an eye.

Then it's hilarious.

Remember kiddies: Comedy is when you fall into an open manhole and die.
Tragedy is when I stub my toe.

solkan wrote:Bah, it's all fun and games until someone puts up an avatar with an Imperial eagle covering some lass's otherwise bare chest.

Hmmmm...

Grot 6 wrote:Its all fun and games until someone loses an eye.

then it's fun and games and you can't see.

Nurglitch wrote:Hey, I just tried to activate the "Hide all Avatars" function and it isn't working. The toggle is switched to "Yes" and yet I'm still seeing avatars.

You could try deleting cookies and temp files through your browsers options.

Fenris-77 wrote:

Flashman wrote:Tried looking for a half naked Christmas babe for my Avatar but couldn't find one on the internet anywhere. That's the problem with the web, there just aren't enough pics of scantily clad women to go around.

At the risk of furthering a tragic workplace sensitive trend, I think FHM has what you're looking. The UK site does anyway. So go get festive.

We really do need a sarcasm Orkmoticon... but thank you for the tip regardless Fenris77

Flashman wrote:Tried looking for a half naked Christmas babe for my Avatar but couldn't find one on the internet anywhere. That's the problem with the web, there just aren't enough pics of scantily clad women to go around.

agreed, they're all completely naked. the internet doesn't bother with scantily clad anymore. those innocent days of cindy margolis are long gone. in honor of the new dakka holiday tradition of faux xmas porn, i've decided to make a custom avatar. i took two video game vixens (one in a bikini, the other in a nightslip) from one of my favorite games and put some santa hats on them. if they come down your chimney, they're not looking for cookies!

warboss wrote:

Flashman wrote:Tried looking for a half naked Christmas babe for my Avatar but couldn't find one on the internet anywhere. That's the problem with the web, there just aren't enough pics of scantily clad women to go around.

agreed, they're all completely naked.

Nothing wrong with that, aside from it being totally verboten according to Dakka rules...

Still, nice to enjoy off-site.

Thats the problem with any forum, a dodgy avatar can be on there for quite some time until a mod notices or it gets reported. I would say that pretty much all the avatars on here are harmless, especialy the ones with half naked lovelies (like mine lol).

In fact there are probably employers out there who are more concerned by avatars showing pictures of evil gods and blood thirsty deamons than a girly with her midrift exposed

The only way for people to avoid getting into trouble for using the internet at work is to wait until you get home to log on, annoying but at least you won't loose your job because of an argument about the differences between dwarves and gnomes

Where youngsters are concerned, it's the internet, if they want to look at boobies they will find them despite parental controls, failing that they can just check behind the bath panel, where dad keeps his "gentlemans special interst magazines"

failing that they can just check behind the bath panel, where dad keeps his "gentlemans special interst magazines"

*Looks*

You LIED!!!

I was thinking of going with a Tenticle H-Monster...but haven't had the motivation to look for a 'scantily clothed' one...

I really don't think it does a young person any harm to see a breast or genitals.

I know that's a bit European of me.

Johnhwang has a nice one +1 =D

Kilkrazy wrote:I really don't think it does a young person any harm to see a breast or genitals.

That won't hold up in court...

Kilkrazy wrote:I really don't think it does a young person any harm to see a breast or genitals.

I know that's a bit European of me.

You wouldn't say that if it was some fat hairy balding guy. Oh the humanity!!!

xD

Kilkrazy wrote:I really don't think it does a young person any harm to see a breast or genitals.

I'm sure if I were to show random boobs to my kid, his response would depend pretty much entirely on how hungry/thirsty he felt at the moment...

@Luna:

I got a funny little message from a git:

Your avatar and a few others are what nesecitate me having to turn off signatures and avatars when I visit this site at work. Thank you. Just so you know that thank you is sarcasm.

OH NO! HE HAD TO SWITCH IT OFF.

BrookM wrote:I got a funny little message from a git:

Your avatar and a few others are what nesecitate me having to turn off signatures and avatars when I visit this site at work. Thank you. Just so you know that thank you is sarcasm.

OH NO! HE HAD TO SWITCH IT OFF.

Your avatar is not bad at all. A woman in a bikini? I'm sorry, what kind of prudish people are we dealing with here? You can see women in bikinis if you go to a beach in summer, how do they handle that situation?


Now I'm reminded about this cryptic message a few weeks back about my avatar...

Anyone who sees it thinks of it, but that gal really does look as if she's suggesting something...

I've not got a clue what he's talking about. My avatar has Lara Croft enjoying an ice lolly, but the lad who sent me this is only 16 so I guess he's got it on the brain.

U'gotta love Daz3D! Design a babe for any occasion!

I had a post on another thread that I've thought over and decided to share here, but not rephrase.

Drk_Oblitr8r wrote:
I'm still under the "At work, you work" state of mind.

I'm not sure why someone would say that to you though BrookM, I don't find yours to be that bad.

Women aren't things, you can't just hide them away under lock and key.

I don't think what I said was coherent, I need to gather my thoughts abit more

If the avatars are so "risky" then maybe you should wear a condom while viewing them.

malfred wrote:If the avatars are so "risky" then maybe you should wear a condom while viewing them.

Don't forget to bring a towel. Towelly always says to bring a towel when "Looking" at risky avatars!

I look for risky avatars on google at work all the time and I don't see what the problem is.
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&um=1&sa=1&q=%22risky+avatar%22&aq=f&oq=&aqi=&start=0

Seriously though. Do you really work in places of employment where you are monitored so closely that someone would notice a 100x100 image alongside a giant block of text and other images? I'm not trying to be snide; I'm genuinely curious to hear that there are places like that out there. Even when my coworkers come over to talk to me, I can have dakka up on the other screen and no one says a word, though I generally minimize it out of politeness to the person (Never know when lurking in the P&M forums is going to get you pictures of naked daemonesses). And yes, about half my coworkers are female, and I get walk ups quite often.

I am sorry but when I started seeing avatar pics of all these christmas eye candies popping up all over Dakka, I just started laughing. Brings new meaning to "nerd lust".

Seriously, I haven't laughed so hard since Balders Gate came out for PS 2, what with all the female elves with the big boobs that jiggled for no apparent reason.



Still makes me laugh.

I am the "GIT" that brookem was talking about. If someone walks by my computer and sees a racy pic it immediately makes them wonder why I have that up on my computer at all, and what kind of site I am on that has pictures like that. If someone walks by and sees a giant wall of text they think that that is boring and they no longer care. If they see a picture of some "toys" thatare painted they think I am silly an weird, no harm done.

I can tell you that the US has a much more strict (too strict) sens of what you can and can't do at the work place. Looking at scantily clad women is not one of the things you can do.

turn off avatars then Bodichi...

Bodichi wrote:I am the "GIT" that brookem was talking about. If someone walks by my computer and sees a racy pic it immediately makes them wonder why I have that up on my computer at all, and what kind of site I am on that has pictures like that. If someone walks by and sees a giant wall of text they think that that is boring and they no longer care. If they see a picture of some "toys" thatare painted they think I am silly an weird, no harm done.

I can tell you that the US has a much more strict (too strict) sens of what you can and can't do at the work place. Looking at scantily clad women is not one of the things you can do.

If its that much of an issue, don't browse Dakka at work - simples.

Just out of interest and don't know it causes the same problem... but I wonder how many Facebook profile pictures are of a similar look? I know when looking through Facebook & MySpace there are plenty of baps bubbling over, do people bat an eye lid then?

Unfortunately the US is still stuck in the age of the puritans, who have had their prudishness taken up by the religious right. It's fine to watch SAW I- VI but for God's sake, don't let a kid see a naked tit (unless of course it's getting hacked off by a crazy serial killer, then it's A-OK!).

I loved the shampoo commercials I saw on TV when I lived in France... If the commercials were like that in the US I'd watch them instead of skipping over them.

Who says we like SAW?

Hmmmm, maybe we need a Gallery set up for all the risque avatars....................

They won't be added. Only wargaming related stuff gets added.

budro wrote:It's fine to watch SAW I- VI

Hey, don't insult us like that. Some of us have MUCH better taste in movies.

To be honest, your not at work to go on dakka.
You are there to work.

So, in theory, its your fault if someone looks at it, not ours

Nahhhh, I work for the guvviment..............

BrookM wrote:I got a funny little message from a git:

Your avatar and a few others are what nesecitate me having to turn off signatures and avatars when I visit this site at work. Thank you. Just so you know that thank you is sarcasm.

OH NO! HE HAD TO SWITCH IT OFF.

Aww... Too bad for him.

Actually, I think this isn't a work issue at all. I think this some henpecked guy being told that he can't look at pretty girls on the internet, not even accidentally or incidentally. And he's so whipped that he actually complies.

I'd tell him to grow a pair and tell her that he'll look at whatever he likes.
____

wyomingfox wrote:I am sorry but when I started seeing avatar pics of all these christmas eye candies popping up all over Dakka, I just started laughing.

Seriously, I haven't laughed so hard since Balders Gate came out for PS 2, what with all the female elves with the big boobs that jiggled for no apparent reason.

Excuse us for having a little fun with the season.

N00b. Try old skool Dead or Alive for the Sega Saturn.

On the other side of things: who comes to Dakka Dakka to look at pretty girls? I come to this site when I'm a work because I can usually rest assured that it contains no images that would could motivate a complaint against me. If I wanted pretty girls on the intarwebz I'd go visit Abby Winters. Fat nerds playing with toy soldiers though? Dakka Dakka, all the way.

Also, thank you to the person who told me I just had to restart my browser.

If I had a way of adding jigglin' boobs and a Santa Hat to my avatar...

Your eyes would be scarred, forever.

And if they weren't?

Well, I'd never ever want to shake your hand.

Wow, people are offended by Avatars? Really?

How the hell do these people survive during the summer when they are at the beach?.......

jp400:

I think that the point you're missing is that skantily clad women are appropriate for the beach, and not for an office environment, particularly one where people may disagree on their appropriateness. It's not the appropriateness that is at issue, it's that conflicts may arise over disagreements about appropriateness.

Dakka Dakka isn't appropriate for an office environment either.

JohnHwangDD wrote: I'd tell him to grow a pair and tell her that he'll look at whatever he likes.

Yeah, and give your boss yet another reason (besides looking at the interent on company time) to lay you off in one of the greatest recessions in American history short of the Great One

JohnHwangDD wrote:Excuse us for having a little fun with the season.

Awe...really, and all this time I thought you were just lonely

No, I got that point. And I cant name a single workplace that ive ever been in that didn't have something of equal value or worse either tacked up on the wall, framed on a desktop, or on a computer as a screensaver.

What is blocked at work:

40K Online.
Warseer.
Librarium Online.
Bolter and Chainsword.
Tau Online.
Bell of Lost Souls.
Google Images.
Any other sort of blogs.

Strangely enough, what is allowed:

DakkaDakka


I turned my Avy and Sigs off at work, no biggie.

See, its that simple. Instead of being a humbug and trying to ruin the fun for everyone else on Dakka, just turn your damn avatars and sigs off on the work cpu.

**EDIT**
Wait a second, You are worried cause you can't look at Dakka while you are at work? Shouldn't you be working instead anyway?!?!

Kanluwen wrote:If I had a way of adding jigglin' boobs and a Santa Hat to my avatar...

I have a mirror for that. No Santa Hat, though.

On that note, I think I just died a little inside.

malfred wrote:

Kanluwen wrote:If I had a way of adding jigglin' boobs and a Santa Hat to my avatar...

I have a mirror for that. No Santa Hat, though.

Sometimes, I wish every forum had the Wasteland smilies...

Kanluwen wrote:If I had a way of adding jigglin' boobs and a Santa Hat to my avatar...

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This discussion reminds me of this one guy on an old forum I used to visit. His avatar was randomly selected each time you loaded it from a pool of dozens, each one an animated pair of boobs. None of this "think of the children!" lark over there.

This old forum, what was it about?

wyomingfox wrote:Awe...really, and all this time I thought you were just lonely

Why can't it be both?

BrookM wrote:This old forum, what was it about?

I joined because one of the subforums was for a webcomic I used to read, but apart from that it was mainly general discussion. There was a pretty good roleplay section though.

Unfortunately the US is still stuck in the age of the puritans, who have had their prudishness taken up by the religious right

Little off there. It is more of the liberal political correctness crap that has been going around for years. Companies dont want to be sued so they dont allow anything to happen there heh.

But yes I turned off my Avatars at work so it is not an issue for me anymore. Once I realized I could do that problem solved but I still think some sensitivity to the issue is wise.

Sensitivity? Do guys even do sensitive?

Once every full moon, apparently...

I honestly have no problem with the risque avatars on this site. It's not like you don't see it on everything from cartoons to commercials. I have only seen one (very) questionable avatar on this site. I won't be an ass and say the person's username but I will note that their avatar involves the display of *cough* goatse.

Really, the avatars are no worse then what you would see anywhere else. Hell, I work at a library and we have stuff in the way of movies, books and magazines that is far worse then what I am seeing here. So if my library carries stuff worse then what I am seeing on here, it's not that bad...IMHO of course.

*Sorry keep finding spelling errors*

ProtoClone wrote:Really, the avatars are no worse then what you would see anywhere else.

I'd expect this from "Naked Man" Barney.

Or someone with a nipple showing through the thumb/forefinger.

Puritans? Wow. Why don't they just show Janet Jacksons boob during the Super Bowl....

Someone use this as their avatar , " Speedo Santas "

I want to. I really do.

But...I'm just not strong enough.

The part that makes me laugh most of all about the pic, Luna, is the words "Hunk Du Jour" in the bottom corner.

What suprises me more is this thread has lasted for 4 pages.

Maybe we're just waiting for more risky pics to show up?

Personally, I'd prefer to see more risque' one.

Yes, I agree, more "risky" avatars.

Too many girls though, we need some more naked men to balance things out. Luna's got the right idea, more "hunk du jour" please.

I won't be an ass and say the person's username but I will note that their avatar involves the display of *cough* goatse.

I think I know the one you're talking about, but I thought it was hilarious.

@Sid: did you not see the "Naked Man" Barney avatar above?

Having just one such avatar probably skews the avatar ratio well out of proportion to the likely M:F ratio of this site.

JohnHwangDD wrote:@Sid: did you not see the "Naked Man" Barney avatar above?

Having just one such avatar probably skews the avatar ratio well out of proportion to the likely M:F ratio of this site.

@Luna: I guess it's better than the zoomin' Hoff...

LunaHound wrote:

JohnHwangDD wrote:@Sid: did you not see the "Naked Man" Barney avatar above?

Having just one such avatar probably skews the avatar ratio well out of proportion to the likely M:F ratio of this site.

@JohnHwang You would look this up.

There's no need to look it up, as it's a non-scientific comment made in jest.

That said, 40k is well known to skew heavily male, so the likely M:F ratio is likely something like 10:1, while the "sexy" avatar ratio is probably more than 10:1.

But as I said, it was made in jest. I have no interest in trying to prove or disprove any of it.

If you can't take the joke, sorry.

Empchild wrote: As long as I stay within the guide lines it is afterall just an avater.

I agree.

jp400 wrote:No, I got that point. And I cant name a single workplace that ive ever been in that didn't have something of equal value or worse either tacked up on the wall, framed on a desktop, or on a computer as a screensaver.

All those places are running in danger of a sex discrimination case.

In little workshops and garages you can probably get away with it. Corporates have to be a lot more careful.

Conflicting...emotions...

I should join in too.

No need for compensation guys, MeanGreenStompa is BRIAN BLESSED, all the manliness we'll ever need around here!

Check tha size of me claymore!!!


HAZAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!

By far, the most Risky Avatars are not pornographic, or anythign sexist or remotely anything to do with the opposite sex..............

Its the ones containing GW images. You'll all get 'cease and desists' from GW leagal before 2010 is out, mark my words.

2010 - The Year of the Great GW Internet Purge - "Lets burn our fan base, because lets be honest, we just about screw them on everything else"!

You know, the C&D jokes are getting old now..

Not really. Not just yet at least.

I'm with Brook on this one.

The real question is: Has GW made it's C&D letters simple enough for Jervis' kid to understand? After all, any forum with two legal threats against it has a lot going for it.

And how long until GW starts sending out C&D letters to other legal companies for copying their C&D letters?

p.s. I shopped me up a holiday Kirby, I hope it's not to Risque.

Aduro wrote:

p.s. I shopped me up a holiday Kirby, I hope it's not to Risque.

And I thought you meant Tom Kirby, GW Presidenté and chief Pit Fiend...

Is he the one on the left?

The Dreadnote wrote:I'm with Brook on this one.

Which GW do you work at?

If I told you, I'd have to C&D you.

Heh, can't have a post about anything anymore without the C&D crap coming up hehe. Talk about obsessed....

Talk about done to death and beating a dead horse into a pulp is more like it.

Say what you will about the C&D spat, at least none have been served for Litko's space towers and industrial corridors.

GODDAMNIT.

Not sure how you did it but that Avatar is funny as hell KilKrazy hehe.

CT GAMER wrote:Which GW do you work at?

The Dreadnote wrote:If I told you, I'd have to C&D you.

Somehow I don't think that will be particularly difficult to figure out.

LunaHound wrote:

JohnHwangDD wrote:@Sid: did you not see the "Naked Man" Barney avatar above?

Having just one such avatar probably skews the avatar ratio well out of proportion to the likely M:F ratio of this site.

LMAO

Also, techno viking returns!