Why did Lit change my forum avatar?

[EctoJohn]

Why did my forum avatar today shift from what I had been using for years to the image that was on my Lit authors page?
It wasn't like this last night into the early morning hours, but now it is?
Something changed in only the last couple hours.
I was using my previous forum avatar so long that I don't even have the computer that image was stored on anymore.
Why was this change necessary?

 

[EctoJohn]

Well luckily I managed to use a certain internet archive website to find my old forum avatar on and download it, but now I hit another snag.
I went to change it, only for the website to tell me it needs to wait for moderator approval.
What? Are you kidding me? I don't even have to wait for moderators to approve my avatar change even on family friendly websites.
I can assure you other websites would be in much more hot water than an erotic fiction website if people walked around with obscene avatars.
Meanwhile my avatar is safe for all audiences to begin with.
Lit.... I gotta wonder if the cart is pulling the horse.

 

[barefootgirl69]

There was a "sweep" done of avatars. Apparently, yours was caught up with many others and deemed inappropriate. Others simply have a white dot.

We were warned of this months ago, to clean up our AVS. I have no clue what yours was before or WHY it was changed.

 

[barefootgirl69]

Well luckily I managed to use a certain internet archive website to find my old forum avatar on and download it, but now I hit another snag.
I went to change it, only for the website to tell me it needs to wait for moderator approval.
What? Are you kidding me? I don't even have to wait for moderators to approve my avatar change even on family friendly websites.
I can assure you other websites would be in much more hot water than an erotic fiction website if people walked around with obscene avatars.
Meanwhile my avatar is safe for all audiences to begin with.
Lit.... I gotta wonder if the cart is pulling the horse.

That approval has been in effect for awhile now. It can take a few days or longer from posts I've read on that subject.

 

[EctoJohn]

There was a "sweep" done of avatars. Apparently, yours was caught up with many others and deemed inappropriate. Others simply have a white dot.

We were warned of this months ago, to clean up our AVS. I have no clue what yours was before or WHY it was changed.

My previous avatar was the Ghostbusters logo on a circuit board.
I could have used it for any forum, it was that family friendly.
It references the same movie that this one does that they switched to.
Only difference being that this was my author's profile image, and I haven't written a story on Lit since 2012.
So not only did they delete a very SFW avatar, but they replaced it with one from over a decade ago.

That approval has been in effect for awhile now. It can take a few days or longer from posts I've read on that subject.

Which is just ridiculous considering MUCH larger websites that actually have to worry about being family friendly don't take so long.

 

[italiansexylady]

I completely lost my AV here but I can still see it on the story side… so maybe it is a glitch ?

 

[Milo9012]

My previous avatar was the Ghostbusters logo on a circuit board.
I could have used it for any forum, it was that family friendly.
It references the same movie that this one does that they switched to.
Only difference being that this was my author's profile image, and I haven't written a story on Lit since 2012.
So not only did they delete a very SFW avatar, but they replaced it with one from over a decade ago.



Which is just ridiculous considering MUC larger websites that actually have to worry about being family friendly don't take so long.

My guess is the Ghostbusters logo is a copyright image and unauthorized use is prohibited.

UPDATE:
Looks like some avatars are coming back while some members are reloading them.

 

[EctoJohn]

My guess is the Ghostbusters logo is a copyright image and unauthorized use is prohibited.

That would make sense if not for the fact that this avatar is also a Ghostbusters image and well under copyright.
Not to mention the other avatar wasn't even an official one, it was the logo superimposed on a circuit board, which is why it was all green and silver colored for the solder,
I had made it myself.