Create Identicons for anonymous commenters

[fiddlingfrog]

Title
Create Identicons for anonymous commenters

Short, concise description of the idea
When an anonymous user leaves a comment, create an Identicon to serve as that comment's userpic.

Full description of the ideaWhen a user allows anonymous commenting the only way to differentiate between different anonymous commenters is by logging IP addresses of

Comments

[azurelunatic]

I like it.

[charliemc]

Ditto.

+1

[just_chiara]

This would be a disaster for anon comment!fics memes and - I'm sure - for other stances as well. I am all in favor of this - I would just add a 'turn on/turn off' option controlled by the entry poster. (I guess it would have to be so that you cannot change the option once you've posted the entry/once the entry has at least one comment; and that there would need to be some sort of 'warning' like the one for IP logging.)

+1

[silverflight8]

This suggestion by the OP would work for some things, where you want threaded discussions people can follow but don't want to reveal your identity, but would really wreck places that are designed to be as anonymous as possible.

[fiddlingfrog]

I'm okay with making it optional, I just thought it would be easier to implement if the devs didn't have to add new options to the Post an Entry page.

[charliemc]

All good points.

[mordyn4]

Interesting. And it would make things so much less confusing.