This is like taking a grenade to a water pistol fight.
Those can be serious too. My younger brother once loaded a supersoaker with urine, in an attempt to exact revenge on a teacher who had been giving him abnormal amounts of grief. He waited until after school, had masks for he and his cohorts, and a getaway driver parked near the side door. A friend had went ahead to confirm the teacher(a real jerk if I must say) was in his room, but by the time my brother got there he was gone. Granted, a grenade would have been worse(depending on your view of this representative of humanity), but I don't think modern squirt guns are necessarily something to be trifled with.
Unless the ratio of gifs to pxxn is much higher than jpgs to pxxn, it does set a precedent where all pictures could be banned unless a somewhat more clear policy is set forth. I don't know the reasons behind this though, and would rather make observations and ask questions before getting riled up. I'm working on choosing my battles more wisely. Right now if I had to choose one, it would be Tyus.
Thanks, Tom. Let us know if it creates a problem.There were past problems with GIFs, both in content, and reportedly creating a false positive from various virus scanning software.
Regardless the block has been lifted.
Do you know who's deleting me? Can I get an explanation?
This was not the reason for the banning of gifs. Read the entire thread - mainly temery's posts.
http://syracusefan.com/threads/here-is-the-answer-to-why-boeheim-will-not-retire-soon.68958/
And you guys think I'm a Luddite, LOL!
PhilistineWhat is a Luddite?
There were past problems with GIFs, both in content, and reportedly creating a false positive from various virus scanning software.
Regardless the block has been lifted.
FINALLY!
Thank You!
As far as I know, other graphics have never been used as an exploit. GIFs, have...
If you search the board, you'll find discussions about the board being put on an unsafe site list by Google. It was because of an animated GIF.
What is a gif?
Ah. Why we dont just say videos?