Why aren't avatar ad clickable?

[2double0]

Pleasure? 
There is no such benefit tbh, but when you see an avatar that attracts you and if it has some advertising material involved into it, the user who sees it, will surely try to fetch out more information about it. A company pays you to advertise their signature, but an avatar adds the glow that misses in the signature. In some campaigns where avatar is not compulsory, users either put their own avatar to give a message through it to the community or wait till someone purchase it. This brings some benefit to users whose avatars are taken on rent.

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[DooMAD]

The only reason people even have ads for avatars and personal text is that it's technically not breaking the forum rules.  The generally accepted interpretation of the rules is that advertisements aren't allowed within the body of the post, so someone noticed the loophole and opted to exploit it.  No one foresaw that happening and it never occurred to anyone to make a rule against it.  

I don't see why anyone would expect forum staff to invest time and effort into changing the forum software just to support a style of marketing that clearly wasn't intended.  I'd even go as far as saying people should be thankful that it would also take time and effort to restrict users from putting ads in avatars and that's probably the only reason you haven't been stopped from doing it already.  

Ads are typically not allowed in posts (outside of the signature area) because they are annoying and off-topic. It is especially disallowed to put ads or signatures at the bottom of all of your posts.

Arguably, the part in brackets is being flouted by many of you.  You're all very naughty.   

[Pmalek]

@QueenVera
Avatars who were created for advertising-purposes usually contain the name of the company that is being advertised. Take a look at the first two avatars under your post. The words BestChange and Aurox are easily spotted. It takes you just a second to enter this into a search engine to see what it is. I would say that 8 or 9/10 companies who are advertising on Bitcointalk require users to wear both avatar and signature if their rank is high enough. If you don't want to search for the ad manually, a click on the sig would take you where you want to go.

And accidentally clicking on an avatar and it taking you offsite to who know where isn’t really that great either

Clicking on the signature can also lead you to God knows where, if the user wanted to.

I think, like some here have touched upon, linking a profile avatar to that persons personal profile page would be a nice feature, but overall pretty unnecessary. I don't think we should be pushing new implementations to the forum.

It is not a feature that we really need in this forum, but it might be worth trying when the new forum gets introduced. Does the new forum software allow such implementations?

[Lordhermes]

I believe that an avatar should be something that is unique to the poster, and help to identify him/her. An avatar was originally the incarnation of a deity, but it has developed a few additional meanings on the Internet. All of them seem to relate to a description, or the ideology of a poster. An avatar mouse is a mouse impregnated with cells or tissues to test various pharma products. If you wear the avatar of your sig campaign, you run the risk of being considered as an impregnated mouse testing a product. I believe that people should have enough self-confidence to stand up and be counted, and not hide behind some commercial product that they may not even understand.

This is the factor that depict the fact that we are hiding our identity with company avatars, now for instance, it could be said that it just a rented space for our profile picture (if actually it is allowed on the forum) for some crypto company while at the same time we are getting paid for renting out our profile picture space, so this in turn it could simply be explained that there is no room for clicking on the avatar. If actually, you need a link, hrn that could be written on the personal text.