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Unknown G. comments on "Why did this little square figure next to my (no) name change its shape?" (4823)

Unknown G. — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 06:48:18 -0700

Thank you, jonas and Harald. I think I'll just stick to my identicon :)

On a different issue, I now finally understand what Regenbogen said about the connection between the email address and the gravatar. Initially, I was under the wrong impression that the email address for answers (appearing at the bottom of any question) has nothing to do with my profile, and that it is some sort of "per-question" information. But then I clicked on 'edit' for my user information, and saw that this address appears in my profile, with the following explanation: "never displayed, optional notifications, used for gravatar."

Harry Gindi comments on "Why did this little square figure next to my (no) name change its shape?" (4817)

Harry Gindi — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 06:54:05 -0700

I think that's illegal in the US and probably elsewhere. In EULAs like that, the only parts that are binding are the legal parts.

Harald Hanche-Olsen comments on "Why did this little square figure next to my (no) name change its shape?" (4816)

Harald Hanche-Olsen — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 06:52:15 -0700

You can also explicitly upload an image if there's one you particularly like.

I thought of doing so once, but I didn't particularly care for this section of the gravatar.com terms of service:

More specifically, you hereby do and shall grant to Automattic a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free and fully-paid, transferable (including rights to sublicense) right to perform the Services (e.g., to use, modify, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, perform, and otherwise fully exercise and exploit all intellectual property, publicity, and moral rights with respect to any User Submissions, and to allow others to do so).

Maybe I'm being anal about such a small thing, but no thanks.

jonas comments on "Why did this little square figure next to my (no) name change its shape?" (4807)

jonas — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 03:18:17 -0700

You can also explicitly upload an image if there's one you particularly like.

Unknown G. comments on "Why did this little square figure next to my (no) name change its shape?" (4657)

Unknown G. — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 09:39:22 -0700

Thank you very much, Anton. I really appreciate this information.

Anton Geraschenko comments on "Why did this little square figure next to my (no) name change its shape?" (4656)

Anton Geraschenko — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 09:09:38 -0700

The moderators can see your e-mail address regardless of whether or not you put it in the box (because your openid is through google and uses your e-mail address).

This is only true if you can "see" my email address in the OpenID "https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=aitoawmp3gge-4j4xtk7hj0w1fsb5iaumlby8ua"

I'm not sure about >10000 rep users though.

No. Only ♦ moderators can see the email address field, and there are only five of them. 10k+ users don't get to see anything in user profiles that isn't shown to everybody else too.

Unknown G. comments on "Why did this little square figure next to my (no) name change its shape?" (4655)

Unknown G. — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 08:34:32 -0700

Thank you very much, Regenbogen and fpqc!

Regenbogen comments on "Why did this little square figure next to my (no) name change its shape?" (4653)

Regenbogen — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 07:51:17 -0700

You can attach gravatars to emails, ie you can specify a picture of your choice for usage. This will be used instead of an identicon. For some reason I didn't want one of the pictures I specified; so rather than going through the hassle of going to the gravatar website to change all that, I just put a dot somewhere in my email address and the picture changed to a new identicon.

The email address is specified in the userpage. I do not know whether you will get the old identicon back if you change back your email address; but I suspect that you will indeed get it back.

Harry Gindi comments on "Why did this little square figure next to my (no) name change its shape?" (4652)

Harry Gindi — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 07:02:59 -0700

The moderators can see your e-mail address regardless of whether or not you put it in the box (because your openid is through google and uses your e-mail address). I'm not sure about >10000 rep users though.

Unknown G. comments on "Why did this little square figure next to my (no) name change its shape?" (4651)

Unknown G. — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 06:24:58 -0700

Thank you, Regenbogen. So, if I return to my old email address for answer notification (the one near the checkbox "notify [] daily of new answer"), then my old Identicon (gravatar?) should return? Ah, and while you're here, do you happen to know who can see this email address? (moderators? >10000 rep. users?)

Regenbogen comments on "Why did this little square figure next to my (no) name change its shape?" (4650)

Regenbogen — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 04:20:08 -0700

A change of email addresses will surely change your gravatar. I have intentionally done it sometimes to change mine. I mean, adding a few dots here and there in your gmail address does the trick.

Unknown G. comments on "Why did this little square figure next to my (no) name change its shape?" (4642)

Unknown G. — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 14:25:18 -0700

Thank you for the answer. Strangely, I usually work from 3 different locations (and, I guess, from 3 different IP addresses), and I have always got the same good old Identicon (now I know the name!).

Right now I'm working from home (one of the above 3 locations), and I haven't replaced my ISP for years.

Michael Lugo comments on "Why did this little square figure next to my (no) name change its shape?" (4641)

Michael Lugo — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 14:12:44 -0700

The square figures are Identicons, which are based on (usually) your IP address. So if you're working from a different computer, or if you're working from the same computer but your ISP changed your IP address, you'll get a new one.

Unknown G. comments on "Why did this little square figure next to my (no) name change its shape?" (4640)

Unknown G. — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 13:50:53 -0700

I really got used to the old one:(

Oh, I did make one change: I replaced the email address for notification of answers. But I'm still using the same account for my OpenID.

Can this be fixed?

Thanks in advance!