[Updated to add more info on uploading an image]
We have now enabled gravatars for comments. That’s what the little pictures are next to your names.
If you don’t already have a gravatar tied to the email address you use to comment, WordPress will have autogenerated a cute little monster icon and tied it to your email addy. If you want to choose your own gravatar, then please go to gravatar.com and follow the steps to upload the image of your choice to be tied to that email address – then that image will over-ride the autogenerated monster. [ETA: it usually takes only 5 minutes or so for the new image to propagate, but sometimes it's a little bit longer. Just have patience, and if it hasn't happened within 30 minutes go check your gravatar account again and see whether something's playing up.]
Gravatar is fine with registering avatar icons to pseudonymous email addresses – they will just send a confirmation email so that nobody else can register a gravatar to that email address. Obviously, if you use an actual fake email address, then the confirmation email will go nowhere and you won’t be able to do that.
I know that the avatar-space has pushed the comment number to overlap with the name-space, but I’m getting rid of the comment numbers anyway because they don’t mean much with threaded comments changing the numbers as sub-threads grow. If you want to refer to another comment upthread or in another thread, then please use the comment permalink which sits under the commentor name – that link remains constant no matter how comments may subsequently be rearranged.
oh good, now I don’t have to memorize usernames anymore.
testWhoo! Oglaf!
Oglaf!
Great webcomic or greatest webcomic?
Great webcomic. There’s still xkcd to consider, after all. :D
hmm. should be obvious, but let’s see…
Hooray avatars! Just commenting here to see if it works…
I apparently have a lot of gravatar accounts.
Hm, I appear to have borked everything. That’s very annoying.
And now I fixed that problem, but the spacing has gone askew. Le sigh.
Okay, lemme try!
Bwhahaha…now no one will be able to argue with me because who could argue with that face!!!! My plans for world domination via blog comments can commence!
Right, after a few glitches I have removed the comment numbers and got the spacing right. Phew.
I hope you know you’re going to have, like, a million test responses now.
That’s fine, we don’t have to be dour social justice warriors all the time – we’re allowed to have a bit of fun with our online personas.
Let’s try this one more time with feeling.
This is puzzling, to say the least.
It takes a little while for the image at gravatar.com to propagate throughout the rest of the internet after you upload it.
However, I’m seeing a lovely fluffy kitty next to your name right now.
Ooh, let’s try this…
Lurker here. I only post on Sundays to share new recipes. Not sure if that’s avatar-worthy. Testing nonetheless.
I exist!
You do indeed! Your gravatar will follow you around the internet now, to other gravatar-enabled sites (basically anything running WordPress, and a few other platforms).
If you want different avatars for different forums, just add a few more email addresses to your gravatar account and upload different images for each.
Testing….
Come on, tiny knitting pokemon…
I love the knitting Pokeman.
Testing….
Everyone looks so different than I imagined!
Oh yay! Avatars!
Wow, this is way tinier than I’m used to, but I think it’s just as well!
This is a comment!
This is a kitty
It pleases me to see so many fans of Pokemon.
Gotta catch ‘em all!
Reporting in and testing.
:D
Testing?
I don’t know if I messed it up; let’s see…
so did I get the right size? who can resist to test?
Hm.
Ahahaha monster! love.
testing….
testing…
and again
I see a spotty wildcat now.
I see a fox eared asshole.
Testing one two!
Trying this again . . .
Okay, this is getting annoying.
Okay, what am I missing? Does it have to be the username, or am I missing a “confirm” button on the Gravatar site?
Kyra , just wait a little longer. Usually the pic propagates in about 5 minutes, but sometimes it takes longer.
Ahhh, thank you. I was frantically bouncing around the site looking for what I wasn’t doing right.
This is a fun lottery!
Hmm, Angry Unicorn/Gumdrop hybrid. I have to admit, summarizes pretty well.
So, let’s see how well Vendetta comes out…
Yay! (said in Charlotte’s voice)
Oooh, someone else who knows about Making Fiends!
I never realized how few people use photos of themselves as their gravatar!
are you implying that I’m not actually a fucktopus?
I am offended. Deeply, deeply offended.
Not accepting the representational veracity of other users’ gravatars?
PROBLEMATIC.
Now everyone gets to see my landscape avatar, which proves I have no ego!
A test…
Woo!
Another test!
I don’t know if this will show up with the thistle, or the YMY graphic.
I am testing.
A pink flea. A LADY FLEA.
test
test!
Reporting for duty!
Testing!
Testing testing…
Jill, you get the disapproving cat AND the little Feministe girl with the gun next to your name? Some people get all the fun.
I fucking love this cat.
My third-ish comment on the site and I use it to test the graphics. Let’s see…I has a rainbow?
YEAH. Rainbows.
test!
wooo
:-)
Testing?
Late, but testing.
Test?
We nao haz preview button.
Testing 1234
Testing!