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The 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
by rplevy 18y ago
The 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 agoAnd they ruined a bunch of debates on the Internet!