Hi everyone...
@louise1970 firstly I think this is an amazing thing for you to do and mental health is something that's close to my heart personally.
However, and here's where we're the bad guys;
We're more than happy for you to add them as your profile covers, more than happy to allow things like this in the gallery..
Myself and all the staff have discussed this - but we can't allow them for avatars, am very sorry to say.
As you will know, we do show support for good causes, such as Pride, LGBT community.. we changed our logo when the Paris and Belgium terrorist attacks took place, and done the same for things such as breast cancer awareness and so forth.
We as a site, will show support to causes by changing our header logo or things on the site to reflect support from us as a whole.
What we sadly can't have, is people using such things as their avatars.
The green hearts in some we have right now, I'm happy to add to our header image as a show of support.. But we need to look at things from a different perspective.
If I was a newbie and just joined a fun, sexy and well run community and swinging site, I'd instantly be put off and feel concerned why so many people are using green heart avatars, when we
enforce and
stipulate across the site, that avatars
must be of themselves and not explicit.
We insist that avatars are of people, and enforce this for new members. As such this is actually double standards for us to allow this and not other images for people's accounts.
Secondly, what concerns us is this could set a precedence, making way for other causes and members to want to show support for such causes, using avatars and sadly we just can't allow that.
So can I please ask that those who have changed theirs, put avatars of themselves back on.
Thank you for your understanding in this matter.
Admin. x