I find avatars and emoticons on forums annoying. Always have. I just want to read the posts. Most "good" forums allow you to disable avatars/emoticons but often still show them if "sourced" from places other than the forum. This will allow you to block either or both - based on personal taste. Some find smiley's valuable to convey "meaning," so in that case just block the avatars - you get the idea. Please visit www.tagworld.com/paulfox for more filterset information.
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- Install Stylish for Firefox, Thunderbird, Flock, Mozilla Suite, SeaMonkey, or Songbird. If you have Stylish already, make sure you're using the latest version and have JavaScript enabled.
- You need Firefox to use this style. Get , then Install Stylish, then come back here to install this style.
- - load into the Stylish extension where you can preview and save it.
- - this style has been updated since you installed it in Stylish.
- - Greasemonkey and Opera users can load this style as a user script.
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Tweakster said on Apr 14 2007
.postdetails > img { display: none !important; }
Takes care of all phpBB avatars, but will also nuke badges and ranks. Use at your own discretion.
.postbody > img { display: none !important; }
Takes care of all images inside phpBB posts. use at your own discretion.
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No, [src*="smilie"] doesn't cause rampant false positives as far as I can tell. You could also add [src*="/emotic"] and [src*=/emote"] .
Finally, you could do other attributes. [class*="avatar"], [id*="avatar"], [class*="smilie"], [id*="smilie"], [class*="emotic"], [id*="emotic"], [class*="smiley"], [id*="smiley"]...
Yahoo abbreviates to [href*="avtr"], [src*="avtr"] .
No Just Us for Peace said on Mar 09 2007
now if there were only a way to disable images in forum signatures without disabling signatures outright..
whiteflyer said on Dec 16 2006
I got the following message when trying to preview
"The code you entered contains errors:
Selector expected. Ruleset ignored due to bad selector."
. said on Aug 22 2006
arteekay (rtk) said on Jul 01 2006
Nice! Now I can decide, pretty much on the fly, whether I want to see 'em or not. Generally, I like both, but there is some forums I occasionally stumble across that this style will prove very handy for.
Thanks again Paulfox