One of the things we are trying to find out from testing is what the best set of menu options really are
It should be possible to switch off the avatars in the forums, even though they're cute, but they slow the forum pages down and may also turn NSFW. I've already seen avatar videos - this kind of stuff leads in the wrong direction, I know people who haven't stayed in Buzzerbeater because of too heavy visuals already in the old version (weird purists).