Enhance your Gluemeatyness with Gravatars!
Fellow friends and well-wishers, Gluemeaties of all walks of life, I wish to take an instant of your time to remind you that there are ways to make your time spent here on Gluemeat even more valuable than it already is. Sure, there are already outstanding additions like Gabbly and the handy Comment Subsciption feature that make this webiste a virtual zen garden of oneness with the joys of cyberdom. But there is, still, another way for you to really take your Gluemeat experience to the next level.
Boggles the mind, doesn’t it? Yet, it is possible! I know what some of you are thinking right now: “Gluemeat is already so great, it would be hard for me to believe that there is a way to render my overall Gluemeat experience even more pleasurable without tearing through the very fabric of reality.”
Yet it is there. It’s called Gravatar.
Perhaps some of you have noticed, when you comment, that a little silhouetted icon that appears next to your writings. Perhaps you have even noticed that a different icon appears next to certain commenters. Favouritism on my part? Hardly; those who have an icon which isn’t the anonymous silhouette dude are people who have signed up for a Gravatar. In fact, these folks are recognised across the worlds of comment-dom as unique individuals, shining beacons of individuality across a sea of generic icons! So why could this not be you? Why don’t you stand out from the pack of silhouettes? Don’t you deserve that? Don’t you deserve to be unique?
This is all you have to do is get yourself a Gravatar: First, you need an image. It can be any square image you like, representing just about anything. Head on over to gravatar.com and sign-up. The Gravatar staff will then approve and rate your icon, and inform you of it by email. Congratulations! You have a Gravatar!
Getting it to work is simple: whenever you come over to Gluemeat to comment (or any other website that enables the use of Gravatars, for that matter) make sure you type in the email field of the comments section the same address you used to sign up for your Gravatar. Your own personalized icon will appear right before everybody’s eyes the minute you hit the “Submit Comment” button.
So come on. Get a Gravatar. You deserve it.
UPDATE: Turns out the Gravatar service is down for major server rehabilitation and sign-up has been disabled. Could be for weeks. Well, that’ll teach me to pimp out someone else’s good idea. From now on, I’ll only pimp my own. MINIVAN CABARET, PEOPLE!!!
Dang. Just in time for an upgrade over at gravatars.
Do you get kicksbacks or what?
I guess not :-p
As Dan mentioned, there’s an upgrade over at Gravatar - that could take weeks.
Apparently, the load had grown 50% recently so the owner’s hand was forced. New signups are closed…
Before the maintenence, I tried getting a gravatar, but the thing wouldn’t let me T_T