Moderation policy on Avatars
All avatars are subject to the Code of Conduct. If we discover an avatar that violates the Code of Conduct, one of our moderators will contact the offender over e-mail with a request to change the avatar. At the discretion of our moderators, this may be accompanied with a temporary ban on the account to hide the Gravatar until the requested change takes effect on Gravatar’s servers. As a guideline, if the offense is deemed extremely serious and required immediate action, the moderator will ban the account temporarily for a period between 12-24 hours. (This will change in the near future, when moderators will be able to disable/enable avatar and signature use on accounts. Forum superusers can do that right now, but there’s only 4 superusers.)
Examples for violations include avatars that contain graphically disturbing images (such as goatse and tubgirl), vulgaries (e.g., bitch, shit, fuck, cunt, whore), racial / ethnic / religion slurs or symbols (e.g., image of the swastika), pornography, and nudity (anything that is not acceptable at a public beach in the US where families are present).
Lastly, Gravatar is a public service not affiliated with HeavenGames. We have chosen to display only Gravatars that are rated G and PG. If a gravatar rated G or PG that should be rated R or X, any user can file an abuse report at the Gravatar site, who will take the necessary steps to resolve the situation.