Avatars in Dashboard
December 21, 2007
Now when you go to your comments, moderation, or Akismet screen you’ll see avatars or gravatars for people who have them. Like so:
Also check out the effect when you approve or unapprove comments.
Hopefully this livens up your comment moderation experience a bit! (We seem to be all about livening up lately, we need new catchphrases.)
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Another nice addition. Thanks!
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good work
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Thanks guys!
You rock! 🙂
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Very nice 🙂
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Great, thanks 😉
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nice feature 🙂 looks great
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Cool! Merry Christmas WordPress! 🙂
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Just noticed, I do not of it is a bug, but I am just seeing the default image for all people who do not have Avatars. The Avatars are not being shown for people who actually have them.
Do check…
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Would you characterize this as simply a ‘fun’ enhancement, or is there some functionality associated with it also? For instance, it’d be interesting to hear if people think that comment submissions with photo-realistic avatars are less likely to be spam. If so, this could help to speed things up when I periodically check the Akismet list for non-spam posts (even though I rarely ever find any… Akismet is terrific). BTW Matt, nice Santa avatar… since you like to give us goodies so often, maybe you should adopt it permanently 😉
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It’s mostly for fun, but if you were browsing Akismet and you saw a face instead of the default avatar I bet it would catch your eye.
Kunal, I just checked your comments page and it showed the unknown ghost guy for people who weren’t signed in and didn’t have a Gravatar, and avatars for people who did.
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Niiiice guys! And Merry Christmas!
=]
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🙂
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Cool!
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I think this is good as it makes the comment page more attractive. Also a great help for Akismet. Thanks. 🙂
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this is a great one…
thankz guys once again
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New catchphrases? Cool!
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Extravaganza. Thanks WP!
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thats a great job.. thanks 😛
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Great! Now, I hope you’re enjoying this while going through these comments…
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just checked out ..looks great….
cheers
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Merry Christmas!
😆
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You guys are too good to us!
Merry Christmas, Frohe Weihnachten: ich blogge auf deutsch!
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Thanks Matt. Now if we can only get a custom favicon now. 🙂
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Too many not important features. When statistics about feeds, like 6 moths ago?.
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It’s going to make a HUGE difference when scanning Akismet. Thanks!
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I noticed the change at 4:30am today, Matt, and for a second I wondered if my eyes were not quite awake yet. Ha!
Avatar preview is a welcome change because you can immediately see if an Avatar is offensive or not before you approve a comment for publication. We don’t publish comments if Avatars are offensive — guns, deaths, bloody slashings, misogyny, etc. — so this new feature saves us a lot of time.
Is there any way we can enforce the Gravatars rating system on our WP.com blogs now? We used to be able to set up a standalone blog and choose the Gravatar rating you wanted to show — or not show. If you ran a “G-Rated” blog you could choose to have only “G-Rated” avatars load and “R-Rated” and “X-Rated” avatars would not display. I miss that feature.
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Nice :-D, liking this.
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Very nice addtion and very kewl!
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Nice
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Thanks!! Keep ’em coming!
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good!
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Thanks!! That’s great!
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Thanks so much Matt.
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Yet another nice addition!
BTW, would the spammers also have Gravatars?? Ain’t most of them just some Bots 😐
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I will have to send my avatar out for a haircut.
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I noticed today.. btw.. when will we can custumize the default avatar\gravatar for the people who doesnt have one.. in my blog shows a ugly empty square…
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It does help in Akismet, I agree. Just another cool feature. Thanks!
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Good addition indeed.
And yeah, you can start “rocking on” instead of “livening up” in case you’re bored with it.
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this is a good feature
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even in this festive season, the wordpress team is still working hard.
cheers!
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Great addition for those who pride themselves on moderating! I’ll only see it here and there though, ahaha.
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Thanks, Santa!
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It’s an OK feature at best. Very little value-added.
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Hi Santa Matt. Thanks for the update 🙂
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Good!!
Merry Christmas to you all.
http://rasgo.wordpress.com/2007/04/10/happy-birthday-father-christmas/#comments
My card to you!!
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Kewl.
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Cool addition!
I like your Christmas themed avatar.
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клево, чуваки 😉
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What about showing own avatar in Dashboard? 🙂
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Good work. Cool
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Useful feature. It lets you pinpoint faster comments that have been added to Akismet by mistake.
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Its always nice to know that if I can’t offend someone with my poor writings skillI can keep them in awe with my mug-shot.
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Cool.
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This is a great feature…
Now I want the option where if there is no feature, the comment automatically gets deleted.
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Sorry, not feature,
If there is no picture, the comment gets automatically deleted.
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that’s great and cool 😉
thanks dear matt
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Awsome!
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Now we can see what our spammers look like! Well, maybe not.
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lol
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oh my god it is nice!very nice!matt you are my love!
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Yay.
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oooo yeahhh!!!
http://miguelbtsa.wordpress.com/
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Nice small additions such as these make all blogging stuff even nicer … tnx.
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Great hat, Matt, it’s you! Yes, I like the Akismettiness of it all, too. I do associate the avatars with the bloggers, so it helps my concentration to see them everywhere they can be. Thanks for the gift.
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Great!
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Now, let’s not always see the same faces….
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huh?
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Great Work!
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That is a cute gift this Xmas. Merry Xmas, Matt.
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Thank you! (uh, Matt, you guys can take off for the holidays now. Stay safe!)
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Good Job, Matt.
Congratulations and Merry Christmas for everybody!
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Very nice!
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cheers matey.
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Well, well, I didn’t know my readers were so good-looking untill now… 🙂
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Awesome! Please bring me more very good news.
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Yes, it will help with browsing Akismet – nice!
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Cool … Merry Christmas to you too. 🙂
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cool!!!
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i fell in love and couldn’t go on loving that person.
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Yay for this!
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Wish I could have a different avatar for each of my screen names.
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in want one!!! 😉
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nice
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cool…
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Thank you. this is a very cool feature. keep up the good work.
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I believe this is nice, haven’t seen the effect though. Thanks a lot
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You’ve been adding up features at rocket speed of late! This feature is definitely going to liven up it more promptly..!
Merry Christmas guys!
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Helpful inovation! Sometimes person like me deleted a friend’s comment in Akismet accidentally…
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sweet
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Pretty cool!!!!
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That’s awesome, thanks Matt. I agree too, I like the Santa hat. MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE 🙂
Or like we wrote on the sign where I work (Coldstone): Happy Christmahanakwanza.
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cool man..wat a nice addition…hehehehe…
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Oohh :O
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Thank you.
Nice avatar, it compliments the holiday season 😛
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get me some of that.hehe
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You guys always work magic, thanks and merry xams and if you guys ever find santa claws, please let me know.
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a fair gift for christmas.
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Nice Santa costume… I never thought santa would be so slim.. hekhek.
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Matt:
As I have stated all along – you guys are on top of things. And if you are looking for a descriptive word/term – how about “tweak” and “tweaking” – because that is what folks at WordPress do – try to make things better and succeeds!
🙂 Merry Christmas!
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