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1. Nemuriko May 4th at 8:37 pm

   “Also, don’t Identicons sound like something from Transformers?”

   You are a great man! 😆

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2. museditions May 4th at 8:49 pm

   The options are very cool. I’ll be interested to see what the generated logos look like. Never liked the mystery man, particularly since 56% of bloggers are women. (No idea if that’s true, I just made it up.) Will generated image users now be eligible for front page/news departments inclusion? Thanks, all.

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3. Matt May 4th at 8:50 pm

   Right now people without uploaded avatars will still be excluded from the WP.com front page. That could change, just no plans right now.

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4. Aguair May 4th at 8:52 pm

   Holla!

   Nice guys!

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5. unseen May 4th at 8:55 pm

   very nice!!!
   thanx WP!!!

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6. Fredi May 4th at 8:59 pm

   They sure do.

   Identicons, attack!

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7. Cristian Giménez May 4th at 9:13 pm

   Cool!!!

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8. BookGirl May 4th at 9:26 pm

   Neat. 🙂

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11. DespairsRae May 4th at 9:32 pm

    Where do I find the option?

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12. Matt May 4th at 9:36 pm

    Under Settings > Discussion.

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13. iaoj May 4th at 9:59 pm

    I always feel glad to see developments at WordPress. You guys are nice people from whom every one gets admiration. Thank you for this wonderful Identicon. WordPress deserve to come right on the top. Thank you

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14. Manuel Reis May 4th at 10:10 pm

    I saw them yesterday by evening, and I couldn’t be happier.

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15. dontbesadblog May 4th at 10:20 pm

    May is already a busy month for WordPress. Astounded at how hard you work for us. Gald I’m not stuck with an other platform.

    Thanks*

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16. Scott Fillmer May 4th at 10:26 pm

    I love the new gravatar options, just wish my theme had integrated the code… no big deal, just added a great avatar plugin and works great. You can really see the improvement on the wordpress based blogs (wordpress hosted blogs).

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17. uemai May 4th at 10:26 pm

    Always improving with nice features.
    That’s it guys, we portuguese have a saying, which translation is something like: “Stop is to die”
    Keep going.
    Thanks!

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18. cjwriter May 4th at 10:37 pm

    Thanks, this is a great feature. I’ve been doing it manually by replacing the email address; it’s certainly a lot less work! Is there any way it could be tweaked to set a different avatar for the comments in Akismet? I almost approved a spam comment because of it.

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19. wweadam May 4th at 10:47 pm

    Awesome! Thanks for the update. I love the Wavatars!

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20. iamthelostgirl May 4th at 10:56 pm

    Thanks for adding this fun new feature, had a right giggle looking at the monster avatars 😀

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21. BriarCat May 5th at 12:05 am

    Cute.

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22. pKay May 5th at 12:08 am

    Awesome! I was getting sick of all those mystery men faces when surfing in tag surfer. At least a random generated avatars would make the blogger look more colourful!

    Looking forward to seeing that implemented on all those bloggers that dont have a image yet!!

    Keep up the great work! Looking forward to more features!!

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23. Dave May 5th at 12:30 am

    Thanks for the option to turn them off without using CSS. Will there be an option to get them off the Dashboard, too?

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24. Craig Hodgkins May 5th at 12:33 am

    Thanks again, Matt, for all of the hard work, and for keeping things fun. Most comments coming to my blog are currently “identicon-less” (or from “Mystery Man”), so I’ll see if I notice any difference. Looks like the settings will be good to experiment with, though, just to see what shows up!

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25. wallacegsmith May 5th at 12:34 am

    Great idea! After being surprised by a few not-too-family-friendly comment avatars on my blog, I had hoped there would be a solution for filtering them somewhat without deleting the comment, itself. Thanks for the new addition!

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27. AKHMAD SUDRAJAT May 5th at 1:42 am

    very nice!
    thx Matt

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28. Queni May 5th at 2:01 am

    cool
    I did a brief explanation on my blog (Spanish)

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29. Muslimah May 5th at 2:21 am

    Hi Matt!

    Thanks load for this new feature as I’ve been waiting for, and finally my dream just came true.

    Keep going!

    Terima kasih! (the Indonesian for thanks)

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30. Arun Shanbhag May 5th at 2:57 am

    Thanks Matt!
    love that Rating feature too!
    (sorry, don’t know if that was always there – just noticed it!)

    Is it possible (now or in the future, to have multiple custom avatars, which I could switch from time to time?

    Arun

    PS, am switching an EE blog to WP sometime this summer – can’t wait! 🙂

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31. katm May 5th at 3:14 am

    Awesome. Now I don’t have to put in my own gravatar to get rid of the ugly shadow man.

    Thanks team!

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32. ThePearLady May 5th at 3:19 am

    Y’all all [@WP] are just freakin’ cool, Matt. 😀

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33. Moon May 5th at 4:36 am

    I’ve already noticed…
    Fine.

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34. ChenZhen May 5th at 5:26 am

    I was kind of hoping that I could upload my own default avatar, but oh well.

    For now, I am reserving the right to assign deserving commenters their avatar using my super cool Chamber emblems. lol

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35. ChenZhen May 5th at 5:28 am

    Also, could we customize the avatar that appears for pingbacks?

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36. Viper007Bond May 5th at 5:31 am

    Heh, glad to see my code being put to use (I wrote the defaults patch). 😀

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37. legoless May 5th at 9:58 am

    My readers were actually discussing the default avatar yesterday… Awesome ideas guys!

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38. furoshiki May 5th at 11:04 am

    Really a very cool option. I was, too, very much unpleased with the MysteryTar Invasion. Thanks WP!

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39. coolsmurf May 5th at 11:40 am

    this identicons is the best add-on for eons years. thanks!

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40. Dimas May 5th at 12:42 pm

    Guy’s you are so creative! Brilliant person! Well Done!

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41. Bruninho May 5th at 12:48 pm

    very good!

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42. FXSmom May 5th at 1:09 pm

    I saw this earlier and totally dug it. It makes my comment widget look so much prettier since 90% of those who comment are from elsewhere. 🙂

    Mucho Gracias

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43. m@q May 5th at 1:36 pm

    I don’t like the MYSTERY MAN avatar…
    So… welcome Identicons!

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44. persikoglass May 5th at 2:19 pm

    Very good WP team. I’m impressed. Keep it up!

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45. Red May 5th at 4:23 pm

    Neat.

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46. Chittaranjan May 5th at 4:38 pm

    We’re fast running out of ‘words-of-praise’ for WP! Nice, Cool, Awesome, Good all sound so passé now…..what with WP doling out one after another goodie!!!

    Wouldn’t it have been nice if the humans in Transformers were called ‘Identicons’? Mebbe WP/Gravatar/Automattic could have “sponsored” the Identicons 😛

    I’m kinda sitting idle now….so…..

    Lexicons – Bot-followers of Lex Luthor
    Beacons – Light-emitting Bots
    Silicons – sandy Bots
    Pros n’ Cons – 😐

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47. fightingwindmills May 5th at 4:54 pm

    The Identicons are very beautiful. Thanks for making that an option!

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49. F4154LMAN May 5th at 5:58 pm

    i’ve tried that wavatar and monsterID avatar identification,
    haha.. those monsters are so funny 😀
    love it

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50. loveparadox May 5th at 6:03 pm

    cool thanks!

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51. Brian May 5th at 8:01 pm

    I love how this gives all the spam comments nifty avatars too. They were so lonely before. 🙄

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52. *~{š†ΣLLªr}~* May 5th at 8:13 pm

    I did notice that. That IS a good Idea, I’ll have to check that one out for myself.

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53. Guineapig119 May 5th at 8:54 pm

    I think it is a cool idea
    Next thing ya know, you guys will allow people without avatars to create there own!
    Great Job!

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54. The Bagel of Everything May 5th at 9:28 pm

    I love this! Especially the ability to set a maximum rating. I had previously cropped off more of my avatar than I’d have liked, for the sake of any family blogs I may visit.

    How are the ratings set? Does each user set the rating of his/her own avatar? I looked in my profile settings, but didn’t see an option.

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55. ismailimail May 5th at 9:53 pm

    Hi, is there any trick to it? I enabled it to show identicons but they aren’t showing up on the blog.

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56. ismailimail May 5th at 10:54 pm

    I guess the icons are showing up on the individual blog posts, but they aren’t showing up on the front page next to individual’s names. It would be helpful if the icons could also show up on the front page of the blog so they may be enticing for people to click and read.

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57. winenegress May 6th at 12:06 am

    Thanks. I think I already have an avatar.

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58. thomasarie May 6th at 12:15 am

    Hohohohoh! Nice! Very nice!

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59. Tubbo & Dubba Tubba May 6th at 12:28 am

    Great post!

    Please come to our site.

    -The Tubbo Twins

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60. Gerald Ford May 6th at 12:32 am

    I was wondering what those colorful squarish-patterns were by guest commenters. Very cute feature. I love it.

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61. saiful May 6th at 12:34 am

    Cool….man..

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62. legalize May 6th at 12:37 am

    Probably the best avatar! Thanks
    May be will be interesting a linkable avatar page in WP.
    Give us a present Matt

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63. Eru May 6th at 12:59 am

    Another surprises (there’s a lot of cool announcements today)

    Great Job!

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64. b oe d May 6th at 1:09 am

    cool 🙂

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65. JavierTC May 6th at 1:20 am

    Cool!

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66. QuillDancer May 6th at 1:34 am

    Too cool. And the avatar generator, as well.

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67. ФHi May 6th at 1:40 am

    thx, it’s great !! coz i dont like the MysteryMan 😉

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68. Freya/Buildabearvilleblog May 6th at 1:46 am

    Awesome!! How do I get rid of the picture in my current avatar to try it out on myself?

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69. politiconews May 6th at 1:52 am

    Excellent. Been wanting an avatar myself. will get one now.

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70. politiconews May 6th at 1:56 am

    Thanks for the auto generated identicon .
    Can I use this in future with slight changes in colour?

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71. nurussadad May 6th at 2:17 am

    Good job

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72. Fay May 6th at 2:47 am

    Cool!

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73. vibesandstuff May 6th at 2:52 am

    im gonna go try it now 🙂

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74. daeng limpo May 6th at 3:17 am

    thanks MATT

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75. dkpresents May 6th at 3:29 am

    Always thinking on our behalf. Brilliant…

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76. thegrip May 6th at 3:48 am

    Can you make an avatar that looks like some dude who just smoked a bunch of sherm dust?

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77. parentingislami May 6th at 4:10 am

    That’s nice Matt. Thanx

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78. grokcode May 6th at 4:32 am

    Any chance of having ravatars included in the admin panel? I think its a nice addition since it allows greater customization of icons by the blog owner while still showing unique avatars for all the commenters (but then again I wrote the plugin so I’m biased.)

    I had been debating about the best way to handle the admin screens when upgrading the plugin for 2.5 until I saw this post. It seems pretty obvious that having it included alongside the other options would make the most sense. Anyway if anyone out there is interested, let me know and I can help out with the integration.

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79. udom May 6th at 5:47 am

    VERY COOL 😀 I like it.

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80. propaganda press May 6th at 5:47 am

    this is a good thing cause am tired of that grey black square

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81. deftoned May 6th at 6:04 am

    The Gravatars icon has sorely been needed! As awesome as it is, a lot of people still don’t know about it! Thank you for this!

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82. BKB May 6th at 6:27 am

    I really want to use my own default image though.

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83. Nanang Suryana May 6th at 6:45 am

    very nice!!!

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84. penyobenny May 6th at 6:50 am

    thanks!

    he he,
    didnt know how many CP people there were!

    http://play.clubpenguin.com/ !!!

    you must be under 16!!!

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85. penyobenny May 6th at 6:51 am

    HAPPY CINCO DE MAYO!

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86. Ale May 6th at 6:59 am

    Cool!

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87. sunshineforlife May 6th at 8:04 am

    cool!

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88. Hameedullah Khan May 6th at 8:29 am

    Very nice feature. Thanks once again!

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89. campsimplicity May 6th at 9:06 am

    Thank you, that’s a great idea. 😉

    By the way, I’d like to have an animated avatar. Would that be possible?

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90. famoon May 6th at 9:57 am

    Awesome!

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92. wuryan May 6th at 10:32 am

    Good job and very nice

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93. harbicoil May 6th at 10:32 am

    Awesome upadate guys!

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94. Alessio in Asia May 6th at 10:48 am

    cool

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95. ><>narniapengi<>< May 6th at 11:28 am

    Great idea, love it!

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96. MondoFree May 6th at 12:06 pm

    Thanks a lot for this option.

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98. Ratssafwevbn May 6th at 12:39 pm

    cool 😉 thanks wordpress 😛

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99. Ratssafwevbn May 6th at 12:40 pm

    i hope you dont screw it up 😆 jk jk jk cuz sometimes when u try to go to a blog it says system error it’s probaly matt’s fault 😆

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100. Ray May 6th at 12:52 pm

     Awesome!
     Keep it up ..and hey, it’s Tuesday already! 😉

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