UHm,my avatars are always smaller then 10 kb's...My high quality avatars are big around 8 kb!USE .jpg format people!!!!Yes that errors doubles when saving again,and again,and again,but,that's purpose of that!Anyway,10 kb max-fine to me-after all-avatars are useless,just make a bg around 4 kb,add picture around 2 kb's,make it filtrated if u want-viola!Avatar that's beautiful,and large about 7 kb's!And,if u want,make it animated with all that stuff-u got 9 kb's,if we count that u have 3 pictures puted together in animation!Actually,u should be happy that option for uploading is here-if not,u could not practically have avatars,then ones u have hosted!So,I think that avatar size stays on his place!
10 kilobytes is fine to almost every1!That I don't mention dumbs who are using default avatars!Stays same,I think...