Because, some people have very slow internet connections (or even dial-up), and imagine if there would be 10 avatars like this one per page..

Not good..I really like it this way, as it is..
And sorry, but I have a good internet connection, and dancing Link still took some time to load..

 

Imagine that 10 times(different avatars) on the same page. Hopefully no one would have 500KB avatars and post all on the same page. And if they were all different, that would be like 5 MB of loading images just from 10 posts. Even that little image took forever for me to load and I'm using DSL... Unless someone in my house was downloading something...

 

QTF.

 

plus GBAtemp already slows down a lot when something big gets dumped

 

Find an animator editor tool and cut some frames out, this will dramatically decrease file size. Considering the small amount of colours there, I'm betting there are unused colours in the colour pallete.. so you might want to try and resave each frame under a better GIF compression.

 

This is a great example how avatar can be animated, nice looking and just the right size..

 

Yeah thanks for the heads up.I am going to go work on that now.

 

I've seen a few pictures of Dancing SSBB characters but all of them are poor quality--I'd like to collect them all, where do they come from?

 

Remember folks, not everyone here has a super fast connection, some people are still on dial up or using DSL with speeds barely above dial up. So imagine if everyone on the page has a 500kb avatar and signature, that would be 10-30 megs per page that they need to download.

Also some people here on GBATemp are limited to ISPs that have bandwidth limits and can only view like 100-200 megs a day before their connection gets throttled. So having large limits on avatars and signatures can quickly eat away the bandwidth.

Also come on, large avatars and signatures are annoying, even for high speed users because sometimes the page hangs until everything is downloaded or the onload javascript doesn't get called until -everything- is downloaded as well.

So personally, I like the limits how they are. Though even with the limits, the staff are pretty relaxed with them and let some slip. Though I seen some people who had avatars which we're a megabyte or greater in size.