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Gravatar Support
Short, concise description of the idea
Setup support for Gravatars in commenting, notably for OpenID users.
Full description of the ideaA gravatar is a "globally recognized avatar", as is explained on their website at
http://www.gravatar.com. A user creates an account
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Furthermore, Livejournal has a history of using user-icon features as paid-only benefits. This particular suggestion isn't really asking for much, but it's a user-icon feature that would be available not only for free but even to non-LJ accounts, and I suspect Livejournal might think it would dilute the value of paid accounts, and might refuse to support it for that reason.
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http://en.gravatar.com/site/implement/url
Step 4, The rating: You can specify a "rating" or "r" parameter to the URL of g, pg, r, or x. If you omit this step we use a default rating of g.
http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/3b3be63a4c2a439b013787725dfce802?r=g
My guess is that having a userpic hosted offsite would potentially pose more of a barrier than rating/payment.
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Gravatar implements a way to enter one's LiveJournal on Gravatar's end. If a user on Gravatar's end has an LJ username *or* an OpenID entered and they say tick a box that says they want to sync with LJ, they are prompted (upon first setting it up and subsequently upon changing their pic) to be signed into LJ with Oauth or OpenID, and automatically upload the icon they just uploaded elsewhere, and setting it as default. So LJ would not have to play "are we there yet" and check Gravatar each time someone loads a comment from them, the icon would not be hosted on Gravatar, it would just be a really convenient way to sync icons.
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