I think I'm on the war path.
It took me an hour to figure out how to get rid of poster's avatar in comic blog on the homesite, but it was in a div with a css class, so it was possible. Now I'm facing a bigger problem with the avatar in author's comments on comic pages. I managed to hide the images but I still have blank space, which I don't want. I tried to kill the div where the image is placed, but the generated coding fixes the size almost everywhere and css just won't get though it. (I still don't know why generated coding fixes the size anyway, why not let the avatar's size adjust it instead? Would make the smaller avatars look better.)
Any ideas?

Avatar displaying is within the hard-coded sections. We have no way of touching it.

I crushed it on the homesite. But can't take it down on the comic pages. I mean, I can hide it, but that's about it. I may play around with margins, but no way to touch the height.

I wish admins would review the coding for pages, make it more flexible.

Unfortunately we have no control over any aspect of the site coding. :[ We're all just user admins, and not very powerful ones at that since they took away most of our toolkit with an upgrade and never gave any of it back.

And platinum getting a coder for the site is, by this time, an utterly laughable idea. We can't even get them to fix bugs. I hate telling people that, but it's the plain truth. Platinum doesn't care about DD enough to fix bugs, let alone make site improvements or add features. Sorry. :/ I wish things were different.

Does this mean you're never gonna fix the bugs with thumbnails and message center? Damn, that sucks. It's a denial of the idea of site administration...

Admins do not have the ability to fix bugs or change any coding. Platinum Studios has the access to those aspects, and we forward the concerns on to them.

If you want complete control the best thing to do is use comicpress and your own hosting.

I have my own site, too. The comic's here for the cheer and convinience of the Duckers:D

The PQ bug just remains... along with some people having comic trouble too apparently?