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That's exactly the problem I am describing. They are making their own portraits, but they aren't sticking to their usernames, at least for me. A visual icon w
by epi0Bauqu 18y ago
That's exactly the problem I am describing. They are making their own portraits, but they aren't sticking to their usernames, at least for me. A visual icon would help. It could be small, 25x25 as someone suggested.
- Alex3917 18y agoEven if you were to add pictures, the place to do it would be on the user's profile page and not next to the posts.
- epi0Bauqu 18y agoI disagree, but that would certainly be a good start. I disagree because then I would have to click each time to see it, and that is an extra step. With some small icon on the page, I'd develop the history in an osmosis-like manner.
- andreyf 18y ago25x25 is pretty big. I think it would be clever to make it 15x15 or 10x10...
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- jgrahamc 18y agoHow about just 1x1? Using the standard RGB color space there are 16,777,216. I doubt HN will have that many users so everyone gets their own color :-)
- boredguy8 18y ago...or 10 x 1. Even with only 32 colors per pixel, that's over a quadrillion color combinations.
- noahlt 18y agoI think pg's "portrait" was a metaphor.
- epi0Bauqu 18y agoOf course it was a metaphor, and I continued it. I wasn't being literal. I'm saying if you did look at the set of comments of a person, you would see the "portrait." But that isn't happening, since at least in my mind, over time that set of comments isn't being associated with that username.
- stcredzero 18y agoMaybe you could write a Greasemonkey script? You could have randomly generated avatars like Miis. Then you could also assign an image for specific posters that you feel are better indicative of their personalities.
- epi0Bauqu 18y agoWhere would you get the images? Just generate them randomly?
- petercooper 18y agoIdenticons: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identicon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identicon
- rplevy 18y agoThe only problem with identicons I have seen is that the algorithm used causes a majority of them to look like swastikas. But that seems like an easy thing to fix. Most of the identicons are quite pretty (including a large number of swastikas), but most people still associate swastikas with naziism.
- petercooper 18y agoSwastikas aside, I don't personally feel they're a good solution. They can be useful in semi-anonymous situations to determine one person from another (or an impostor posing as someone else), but I don't find them even vaguely recognizable from one another in the most case. They're very easily confusable.
- bct 18y agoNot only did the Nazis ruin an ancient symbol, they ruined rotational symmetry.
- stcredzero 18y ago
- kashif 18y agoI agree. I think we can all give links to our blogs, or make a community on facebook. Actually, I am just going to do that and submit a link for those who are interested.