Avatars in Dashboard
Now when you go to your comments, moderation, or Akismet screen you’ll see avatars or gravatars for people who have them. Like so:
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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.)

December 21st, 2007 at 10:37 am
Another nice addition. Thanks!
December 21st, 2007 at 10:37 am
good work
December 21st, 2007 at 10:38 am
Thanks guys!
You rock!
December 21st, 2007 at 10:40 am
Very nice
December 21st, 2007 at 10:43 am
Great, thanks
December 21st, 2007 at 10:54 am
nice feature
looks great
December 21st, 2007 at 10:55 am
Cool! Merry Christmas WordPress!
December 21st, 2007 at 10:57 am
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…
December 21st, 2007 at 11:03 am
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
December 21st, 2007 at 11:07 am
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.
December 21st, 2007 at 11:16 am
Niiiice guys! And Merry Christmas!
=]
December 21st, 2007 at 11:16 am
December 21st, 2007 at 11:32 am
Cool!
December 21st, 2007 at 11:51 am
I think this is good as it makes the comment page more attractive. Also a great help for Akismet. Thanks.
December 21st, 2007 at 12:15 pm
this is a great one…
thankz guys once again
December 21st, 2007 at 12:20 pm
New catchphrases? Cool!
December 21st, 2007 at 12:24 pm
Extravaganza. Thanks WP!
December 21st, 2007 at 12:31 pm
Great! Now, I hope you’re enjoying this while going through these comments…
December 21st, 2007 at 12:31 pm
thats a great job.. thanks
December 21st, 2007 at 12:36 pm
just checked out ..looks great….
cheers
December 21st, 2007 at 12:36 pm
Merry Christmas!
December 21st, 2007 at 12:47 pm
You guys are too good to us!
Merry Christmas, Frohe Weihnachten: ich blogge auf deutsch!
December 21st, 2007 at 12:50 pm
Thanks Matt. Now if we can only get a custom favicon now.
December 21st, 2007 at 1:01 pm
Too many not important features. When statistics about feeds, like 6 moths ago?.
December 21st, 2007 at 1:01 pm
It’s going to make a HUGE difference when scanning Akismet. Thanks!
December 21st, 2007 at 1:06 pm
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.
December 21st, 2007 at 1:10 pm
Nice
, liking this.
December 21st, 2007 at 1:15 pm
Very nice addtion and very kewl!
December 21st, 2007 at 1:20 pm
Nice
December 21st, 2007 at 1:22 pm
Thanks!! Keep ‘em coming!
December 21st, 2007 at 1:22 pm
good!
December 21st, 2007 at 1:26 pm
Thanks!! That’s great!
December 21st, 2007 at 1:26 pm
Thanks so much Matt.
December 21st, 2007 at 1:39 pm
Yet another nice addition!
BTW, would the spammers also have Gravatars?? Ain’t most of them just some Bots
December 21st, 2007 at 1:50 pm
I will have to send my avatar out for a haircut.
December 21st, 2007 at 1:55 pm
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…
December 21st, 2007 at 2:05 pm
It does help in Akismet, I agree. Just another cool feature. Thanks!
December 21st, 2007 at 2:09 pm
Good addition indeed.
And yeah, you can start “rocking on” instead of “livening up” in case you’re bored with it.
December 21st, 2007 at 2:16 pm
this is a good feature
December 21st, 2007 at 2:42 pm
even in this festive season, the wordpress team is still working hard.
cheers!
December 21st, 2007 at 3:02 pm
Great addition for those who pride themselves on moderating! I’ll only see it here and there though, ahaha.
December 21st, 2007 at 3:08 pm
Thanks, Santa!
December 21st, 2007 at 3:19 pm
It’s an OK feature at best. Very little value-added.
December 21st, 2007 at 3:21 pm
Hi Santa Matt. Thanks for the update
December 21st, 2007 at 3:36 pm
Good!!
Merry Christmas to you all.
http://rasgo.wordpress.com/2007/04/10/happy-birthday-father-christmas/#comments
My card to you!!
December 21st, 2007 at 4:00 pm
Kewl.
December 21st, 2007 at 4:12 pm
Cool addition!
I like your Christmas themed avatar.
December 21st, 2007 at 4:15 pm
клево, чуваки
December 21st, 2007 at 4:22 pm
What about showing own avatar in Dashboard?
December 21st, 2007 at 5:17 pm
Good work. Cool
December 21st, 2007 at 5:18 pm
Useful feature. It lets you pinpoint faster comments that have been added to Akismet by mistake.
December 21st, 2007 at 5:27 pm
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.
December 21st, 2007 at 5:34 pm
Cool.
December 21st, 2007 at 5:57 pm
This is a great feature…
Now I want the option where if there is no feature, the comment automatically gets deleted.
December 21st, 2007 at 5:57 pm
Sorry, not feature,
If there is no picture, the comment gets automatically deleted.
December 21st, 2007 at 5:59 pm
that’s great and cool
thanks dear matt
December 21st, 2007 at 6:32 pm
Awsome!
December 21st, 2007 at 6:33 pm
Now we can see what our spammers look like! Well, maybe not.
December 21st, 2007 at 7:13 pm
lol
December 21st, 2007 at 7:16 pm
oh my god it is nice!very nice!matt you are my love!
December 21st, 2007 at 7:22 pm
Yay.
December 21st, 2007 at 7:22 pm
oooo yeahhh!!!
http://miguelbtsa.wordpress.com/
December 21st, 2007 at 7:51 pm
Nice small additions such as these make all blogging stuff even nicer … tnx.
December 21st, 2007 at 8:06 pm
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.
December 21st, 2007 at 8:24 pm
Great!
December 21st, 2007 at 8:24 pm
Now, let’s not always see the same faces….
December 21st, 2007 at 8:51 pm
huh?
December 21st, 2007 at 9:00 pm
Great Work!
December 21st, 2007 at 9:02 pm
That is a cute gift this Xmas. Merry Xmas, Matt.
December 21st, 2007 at 10:13 pm
Thank you! (uh, Matt, you guys can take off for the holidays now. Stay safe!)
December 21st, 2007 at 10:16 pm
Good Job, Matt.
Congratulations and Merry Christmas for everybody!
December 21st, 2007 at 10:41 pm
Very nice!
December 21st, 2007 at 11:04 pm
cheers matey.
December 21st, 2007 at 11:15 pm
Well, well, I didn’t know my readers were so good-looking untill now…
December 21st, 2007 at 11:31 pm
Awesome! Please bring me more very good news.
December 21st, 2007 at 11:36 pm
Yes, it will help with browsing Akismet – nice!
December 21st, 2007 at 11:47 pm
Cool … Merry Christmas to you too.
December 22nd, 2007 at 12:12 am
cool!!!
December 22nd, 2007 at 12:27 am
i fell in love and couldn’t go on loving that person.
December 22nd, 2007 at 12:51 am
Yay for this!
December 22nd, 2007 at 1:20 am
Wish I could have a different avatar for each of my screen names.
December 22nd, 2007 at 1:34 am
in want one!!!
December 22nd, 2007 at 1:38 am
nice
December 22nd, 2007 at 1:49 am
cool…
December 22nd, 2007 at 2:28 am
Thank you. this is a very cool feature. keep up the good work.
December 22nd, 2007 at 2:28 am
I believe this is nice, haven’t seen the effect though. Thanks a lot
December 22nd, 2007 at 4:23 am
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!
December 22nd, 2007 at 4:28 am
Helpful inovation! Sometimes person like me deleted a friend’s comment in Akismet accidentally…
December 22nd, 2007 at 4:31 am
sweet
December 22nd, 2007 at 5:46 am
Pretty cool!!!!
December 22nd, 2007 at 6:06 am
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.
December 22nd, 2007 at 6:12 am
cool man..wat a nice addition…hehehehe…
December 22nd, 2007 at 6:42 am
Oohh :O
December 22nd, 2007 at 6:44 am
Thank you.
Nice avatar, it compliments the holiday season
December 22nd, 2007 at 7:32 am
get me some of that.hehe
December 22nd, 2007 at 7:59 am
You guys always work magic, thanks and merry xams and if you guys ever find santa claws, please let me know.
December 22nd, 2007 at 8:12 am
a fair gift for christmas.
December 22nd, 2007 at 8:12 am
Nice Santa costume… I never thought santa would be so slim.. hekhek.
December 22nd, 2007 at 8:44 am
Matt:
Merry Christmas!
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!