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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