Quote - As for me, my major gripes are avatars, signatures, giant smilies and yellow stars.

Good news, roobol - you can kill three out of the four; the worse ones too ;-).

At the top of the page (under the Rendo header), click on "my options". On that page you'll see check / tick boxes for:

Show other users' avatars?
Show other users' signatures?
Show smilies in posts and signatures?

Empty the boxes and your forum experience will be free of casual distractions (which is how mine is now). All that's left is the stars and the rest of us lot.
Hey, you have to suffer a bit for your art.

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