Comments on: Gravatars? http://blog.xcski.com/2005/07/22/gravatars Everything I used to bore people on newsgroups and mailing lists with, now in one inconvenient place. Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:40:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: jim http://blog.xcski.com/2005/07/22/gravatars#comment-1084 jim Sun, 24 Jul 2005 09:44:46 +0000 http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/2005/07/22/gravatars#comment-1084 I like them, but given the recent network issues as mention by baz, i'm thinking of dropping it. ...specially as my gravitar is my ugly mug and i think it may offend some people :D btw, your title, "Rants and Revaltions" sounds much grander than my "Rants and Rambles", wish I'd thought of using that instead... ;-) I like them, but given the recent network issues as mention by baz, i’m thinking of dropping it.

…specially as my gravitar is my ugly mug and i think it may offend some people :D

btw, your title, “Rants and Revaltions” sounds much grander than my “Rants and Rambles”, wish I’d thought of using that instead… ;-)

]]> By: Barry Price http://blog.xcski.com/2005/07/22/gravatars#comment-1083 Barry Price Fri, 22 Jul 2005 12:10:22 +0000 http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/2005/07/22/gravatars#comment-1083 Every submitted Gravatar image has to be manually approved - they're given an <a href="http://www.gravatar.com/rating.php" rel="nofollow">MPAA-style rating</a>, and you can decide which levels you are comfortable displaying on your site. From submission to approval usually takes just a few hours in my experience, but I guess it depends on how busy they are - it's a volunteer service. You can only have one active gravatar at a time, but you can change it whenever you like. You just have to wait for the replacement to be approved - in the meantime, your old image will be displayed. I think it's a great system, but unfortunately it means every site using them relies on <a href="http://www.gravatar.com/" rel="nofollow">gravatar.com</a> being up and running at all times. Recently, <a href="http://www.hicksdesign.co.uk/journal/gravatars-will-be-ok" rel="nofollow">it wasn't</a>... Every submitted Gravatar image has to be manually approved - they’re given an MPAA-style rating, and you can decide which levels you are comfortable displaying on your site.

From submission to approval usually takes just a few hours in my experience, but I guess it depends on how busy they are - it’s a volunteer service.

You can only have one active gravatar at a time, but you can change it whenever you like. You just have to wait for the replacement to be approved - in the meantime, your old image will be displayed.

I think it’s a great system, but unfortunately it means every site using them relies on gravatar.com being up and running at all times. Recently, it wasn’t…

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