Did ya notice in the comments?

December 23, 2007 By

People who have a WordPress.com account get neat little pictures next to their comments here on my blog (thank you Matt Mullenweg!). One advantage? You’re far less likely to end up in the spam bucket (comments with pictures are easy to pick out of the spam stream). It’s a small thing, but it sure made me smile when it turned on. I’m so easily pleased. Now hopefully Matt and team will add on some more features for commenting. I’d hate for Disqus or SezWho users to have all the fun.

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  • Cody

    Pictures like mine xD
    Haha, yeah, I’m happy he set that up as well :)

  • Cody

    Pictures like mine xD
    Haha, yeah, I’m happy he set that up as well :)

  • http://www.linkerjpatrick.com linkerjpatrick

    I’m not sure if it will show up right away. I just uploaded my avatar to my wordpresss.com account but I’d really like to do this with wordpress on my official hosted site where I installed wordpress myself.

  • http://www.spinningsilkmultimedia.com linkerjpatrick

    I’m not sure if it will show up right away. I just uploaded my avatar to my wordpresss.com account but I’d really like to do this with wordpress on my official hosted site where I installed wordpress myself.

  • Sam Davyson

    Have you made it work for anyone with a Gravatar?

  • http://sam.davyson.com/weblog Sam Davyson

    Have you made it work for anyone with a Gravatar?

  • Sam Davyson

    Answer: obviously yes.

  • http://sam.davyson.com/weblog Sam Davyson

    Answer: obviously yes.

  • http://EdwardKhoo.com/ Edward

    Really? Let me try

  • http://EdwardKhoo.com Edward

    Really? Let me try

  • http://photomatt.net/ Matt Mullenweg

    :)

  • http://photomatt.net/ Matt Mullenweg

    :)

  • http://thesledgehammer.wordpress.com/ Brian Lutz

    It should just work if you’re logged into your WordPress account, right?

  • http://thesledgehammer.wordpress.com Brian Lutz

    It should just work if you’re logged into your WordPress account, right?

  • http://hauntingthunder.wordpress.com/ Maurice

    heh ill have to get a petter pic done then :-)

  • http://hauntingthunder.wordpress.com/ Maurice

    heh ill have to get a petter pic done then :-)

  • http://scobleizer.com/ Robert Scoble

    Brian: you have to upload a photo to your WordPress.com account.

  • http://scobleizer.com/ Robert Scoble

    Brian: you have to upload a photo to your WordPress.com account.

  • http://blog.think27.com/ John Erik

    let’s see here… just uploaded one.

  • http://blog.think27.com John Erik

    let’s see here… just uploaded one.

  • http://comicstripblog.com/ Comic Strip Blogger

    great idea, Robert! It’s a big thing!

    Generally wordpress.com is a great service although I wish they could allow ads also for commoners and not only alpha bloggers and that they could offer something like “blogging service for ever” (like: you pay 1000 USD and they host your account even after you pass away)…

  • http://comicstripblog.com Comic Strip Blogger

    great idea, Robert! It’s a big thing!

    Generally wordpress.com is a great service although I wish they could allow ads also for commoners and not only alpha bloggers and that they could offer something like “blogging service for ever” (like: you pay 1000 USD and they host your account even after you pass away)…

  • http://beamreach.wordpress.com/ Rory

    Whoo hoo! Comment avatars!

  • http://beamreach.wordpress.com Rory

    Whoo hoo! Comment avatars!

  • http://goinglikesixty.com/ Goinglikesixty

    Didja notice how WordPress commenters are having problems with comments being marked as spam unless they are logged in?
    It’s happening to me- even on my own blog!

  • http://goinglikesixty.com Goinglikesixty

    Didja notice how WordPress commenters are having problems with comments being marked as spam unless they are logged in?
    It’s happening to me- even on my own blog!

  • http://personalbrandingblog.com/ shwibbs

    Matt Mullenweg is the man.

    -Dan Schawbel
    http://www.danschawbel.com

  • http://personalbrandingblog.com shwibbs

    Matt Mullenweg is the man.

    -Dan Schawbel
    http://www.danschawbel.com

  • http://blogs.howtogeek.com/jatecblog Jake

    /me tests to see if this works with Gravatar avatars too. (and if it doesn’t, please set it up as such!)

  • http://blogs.howtogeek.com/jatecblog Jake

    /me tests to see if this works with Gravatar avatars too. (and if it doesn’t, please set it up as such!)