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Section with no title[edit]

does it really mean "increased server response time," or does it mean *improved* server response time? 208.65.175.197 (talk) 19:31, 17 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Increasing server response time isn't right... fixed. - JeffJonez (talk) 01:23, 18 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Section without a title #2[edit]

For an internet encyclopedia, wikipedians really seem to hate talking about websites. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.192.69.26 (talk) 15:53, 19 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Tom Werner[edit]

or Tom Preston-Werner, co-founder of GitHub? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.92.96.69 (talk) 20:40, 16 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed: http://tom.preston-werner.com/2008/10/27/looking-back-on-selling-gravatar-to-automattic.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.90.127.77 (talk) 05:02, 21 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Removed "FAIL Blog" from Adoption section[edit]

I removed the entry for FAIL Blog from the "Adoption" section. I don't have anything against FB (I personally love the site), but FB is a Wordpress-based blog. Listing FAIL Blog is redundant. Hmmwhatsthisdo (talk) 01:41, 8 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

spam to e-mail[edit]

Discussion unrelated to the article

In Article one wrote: To eliminate spam, e-mail addresses are hashed ... Yestarday 14:30 (GMT+2) I got e-mail from support@gravatar.com : Welcome to Gravatar!... without any Unsubscribe options. I did not have any contacts whith them - it's a spam!

So, gravatar protects my e-mail from spambots but uses spam-mailings to promote their service? I'm going to write about it in article after re-check my recent possible web-contacts which can be recognized as request of gravatar services.

Full e-mail text I have got:

Gravatar donotreply@gravatar.com

Welcome to Gravatar!

To activate your account, simply click on the link below or paste into the url field on your favorite browser:

http://ru.gravatar.com/accounts/activate/ + ID (I trimmed it)

The activation link will only be good for 2 weeks, after that you will have to try again from the beginning. When you visit the above page, you'll be able to set your password and create as many gravatars as you like, all for free!

If you have any questions about the system, feel free to contact us anytime at support@gravatar.com.

The Gravatar Team, An Automattic joint.

ALEF7 (talk) 11:14, 5 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I fail to see how a greeting/confirmation email is spam. It is not. Naki (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 06:42, 30 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

can't delete your account[edit]

Can it be added that you can't delete your account. The reason given is that nobody will be able to use your account name after.--70.71.152.221 (talk) 19:12, 2 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Gravatar? (Useful name, or silly made-up internet term?)[edit]

As if from nowhere, this made-up term just appeared. Then again, if they are big enough, it seems that any internet firm can invent new words at will - and no one seems to notice. Given this, should Wikipedia help in pushing this fad term?

89.240.213.72 (talk) 20:21, 21 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Your comment is useless & irrelevant. This is not any term or an actual word, but a service/trademark name. Same as Windows, Mac, WhatsApp, Viber, Skype. You are not complaining against those, are you? Also, Wikipedia is not pushing or pulling anything - it is providing information. Naki (talk) 21:44, 7 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Incidents of abuse?[edit]

People must've abused these things before, but I can't find any record of it. Like sending letters from other people's addresses (works for email also) it seems like many websites that use Gravatar without login credentials, would be subject to having people posting comments and things using email addresses that do not belong to them, and by doing so this would bestow upon their secret identity the "gravatar" assigned to that email address. Is this worthy of a section? Can anyone locate references for such an incident? Just food for thought. There are reports of people using obscene images resulting in the images appearing on Gravatar-hosting websites. --184.21.224.130 (talk) 19:28, 4 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Gravitars on wikipedia?[edit]

I tried searching the template namespace, but didn't find any Wikimedia templates to add them to a user's home page. Did I miss something? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Burt Harris (talk • contribs) 17:37, 3 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]