Actually I most definitely do read these forums, and I intend to take care of the avatars soon.
My big problem is that the majority of the submitted avatars don't fit the standards. If I could just click "accepted", then it'd be great, but no, most of them are a headache.
These are the problems I encounter regularly.
- No name on the image
- Wrong name on the image
- Abbreviated or short name on the image
- Unreadable font for name on the image
- Name is similar or same color as background on the image.
- Name is the webcomic instead of the character.
- Name is a symbol for the character otherwise known as X.
- profanity in the image
- Religious parodies in the image.
- Giant resolution image (300x300+)
- Mega giant resolution image (1000x1000+)
- Submitting of vote incentives as character avatars
- submitting of comic avatar or banner advertisement as character avatar.
Probably 2/3 of the images are messed up in some way, such that I can't accept them. A lot of them look fantastic, they just aren't acceptable. Some of them are funny, but once again, I can't just put anything into the vote pages, so they have to be PG.
As far as a vote order, once your avatar is accepted, its rotated through, probably several hundred times a month, possibly several thousand. The new vote page gives more prominance to the vote avatars, I hope people like them.
Finally, I had intended on approving all of the ones that could be approved this weekend, but I installed Windows 7 and its really taken me more time than I expected to get everything setup. Fantastic OS, but still taking me a lot of time.
I hope to get everything done this weekend at the latest, sorry for being unresponsive.
Richard M.
Grimfang"Whisper"Xaeraes