Bigger Avatars! Amazing feature! =)

[Mr Happy]

Having large avatars reduces your traffic. Avatars are among the biggest files on a webpage to download. Stuff like the javascript, css stylesheets and images like the KWWH logo are cached but you can't possibly have every avatar of every member cached. As a result pages take longer to load and people view less pages, make less topics and less replies resulting in a lower site activity. Now I know it's probably a 5-10% reduction but 5-10% reduction in new topics means you have less topics to reply to which reduces it further. It also means less topics for Google to index which reduces it again.
Add to this the fact that Google takes into account page speed having large avatars slows a site and therefore reduces your Google traffic. This means less Organic traffic, less new members and less new content.

Overall it's a bad idea.

[foxman]

I like your avatar mrhappy.

[Capone]

Thanks for all participating.

Conclusion, staff decided no need for bigger avatars we are good as is

Closing Thread to prevent clutter.