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