That's the best everyone could come up with? Bigger avatars so Jenova's Witness could show some skin ... and pickles? I guess it is not a big deal since none of the avatars are hosted on Qhimm, and I am sure 99% of us are on some sort of broadband. Be warned that anyone who abuses the avatars will have the privilege of them removed.
They should have come up with ideas that will really help the forums, like letting you give yourself more stars.
And how does the "ignore member" option work? If it ignores all their posts on the forums, the following two scenarios are likely to result:
Scenario one:
Primus: Hey guise, how do I
x?
Secundus: You can
x by
ying your
z.
Tertius (who has Secundus on his ignore list): You can
x by
ying your
z.
Scenario two:
Primus: Hey guise, how do I
x?
Secundus (who, unbeknownst to him, is on Primus' ignore list): You can
x by
ying your
z.
Tertius, Quartus...
nsimus (aside): The question has been answered, so let's not bother repeating anything.
Primus (aside): Why is no-one answering my question? BAWWWWW!
This is is the lesser of two evils on social forums, but it seems like a bad idea on a technical one.
As for positive suggestions, I'd like to repeat the calls for a better search option (the current one is worse than useless) and a review on avatar restrictions. 100x100px and 10KB is from the days of dial-up and is no longer necessary. Instead, the focus should be on preventing obnoxius and distracting avatars rather than ones with a big filesize. Allowing avatars beyond 150x150 and long animated gifs will make threads unpleasant to read, but something like a 120x120, 20KB avatar should be fine. I'd advocate at least doubling the filesize limit (but not going beyond 50KB, so that unnecessarily long gifs can't be used) and setting a size limit of something like 120x120px or 150x150px. Anything huge would be distracting.
But wait, I have another negative suggestion! I feel the need to inb4 sigs. Signatures are the cancer that is killing the intertubes and have no function other than ego stroking and making stuff half to read because threads are walls of signature with tiny amounts of text in between. No-one ever reads them, anyway. I know that no-one has suggested sigs, but I'd like to voice my opposition to them in advance.
I can't think of anything terribly original, except maybe FAQ maid/mods whose only responsibility is to comb through old posts, add answers to various FAQs, and then delete the old posts.
A meido-san? Uwaaa! Can we dress her up in a French maid outfit with nekomimi and a tail? I like this idea!