Sorry if such a thread has come up before...

Anyway, I was wondering, if we can have the option of no ranks, and possibly in the future the ability to turn-off sig lines as well, can we also have the option to have no avatars (at the individual level at least, or the ability to turn-off the avatars)? I think for those still in dial-up hell (like me), switching off avatars might help in speeding loading the site on our browsers. At the very least, though, I'd like to have no avatar at all (even the silohuette with question mark). Sorry if I sound like a pain.