Gravatars Rule…
Posted by Prashanth | Filed under Asides
One small appeal to every user who reads Wordpress blogs. Make your account on Gravatar and upload a thumbnail image (80*80px) that represents you. What it does is for our blogs and every other Wordpress or Gravatar enabled site is decorate the comments section of every post. Gravatars or Globally Recognized Avatars are linked to your email account and other details that you enter before commenting on a Wordpress blog. Once you enter them and comment, a little thumbnail image comes up.
Like if you see the comments made by me, there would be a picture of me when I was a little kid. The rest are grayed out boxes, including those made by Uma. So please have your Gravatar account created and colour up the web or whichever sites you comment. Whenever you change your avatar, it will automatically change on all Gravatar-enabled sites… which means all Wordpress blogs among more sites…
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One Response to “Gravatars Rule…”
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Ankur Banerjee Says:
May 2nd, 2008 at 10:25 pmThe problem with Gravatars is that it’s very easy to impersonate someone. Earlier, if you entered my name and email address in a comment form, it’s just show a blank pic - which did give the possibility that it could be a fake comment. Only the ones showing up as posted by ‘greatquizzard’, my WP account, could be taken to be genuine.
Now however with Gravatar support, anyone can use my name and email ID, it’ll show up with my pic - making it seem as if I posted it. I see this as a big risk.
