[Discussion] Epileptic Flash-imation?

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[Discussion] Epileptic Flash-imation?

Post by Coyote »

I was asked by a Plebe about the animated flash-animation posted by Einy here-- Testing fun.

Neither myself nor the person who asked me about this has a problem with Einy or anything like that, but a question was brought up about any policy regarding such flashing animations-- are they potentially siezure-inducing among the epileptic (I myself don't know how much flashing/flickering there has to be for such), and do we/should we have a policy on such things for that reason?

Again-- this is not a complaint against Ein.
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Post by Sea Skimmer »

Flashing animation’s are fucking annoying, but if someone’s going to get a seizure from that kind of thing they’d be at risk all over the internet from flashing popups and other shit. With that in mind I don’t see seizures as a specific reason to ban them, and anyway any risk is pretty absurdly minimal.
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Post by The Yosemite Bear »

It just gives me headaches, and slows DL time to a craaaaawwwwwwlllll.

so I would just consider some limits on animated avs and sig pics...
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Post by Dalton »

Links are fine, but it's pretty obnoxious to have something like a flashing animation appended to every single post someone's ever made.
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