[Smithy]

Originally Posted by Vicky.

People are just sick of seeing gifs every other post. Its really that simple. And they shouldnt have to put up with it. Surely the people who overuse gifs can have some decent input into conversations other than an animated image? If not, then a forum is not the right place for them, perhaps try a soft play area or something...

And yes, theres the added problem of slowing down peoples computers. People shouldnt have to turn off images just because of one or two people abusing gifs. And as far as I am aware, the people who say gifs slow down their computers...already have signatures off. I know two people have :/

Which is why they were restricted to chat and games, even then you post them you get warned, a couple of us were having a laugh in the loft the other day and Ben came in and told us to stop posting gifs. Even though there was about 5 gifs over 100 posts, and he wasn't even contributing to our conversation.