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The thing I found a little jarring about this, is that if you are not registered for gosquared, it still can get a gravatar you have registered on gravatar. Despite me not being registered, entering my email, it is as if they already have information on me.

This could be a little daunting to someone who doesn't understand how this is happening.

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Don't you think if you've already signed up with gravatar you'd make the connection when your gravatar shows up?

Someones Gravatar could easily be a profile picture that they use in a lot of places no?

Nope - you have to sign up and add a picture to Gravatar, it doesn't fetch it from other services/networks.

What I mean is I may use the same picture for a number of services i.e Twitter, Facebook, and that same picture might also be my Gravatar. If I had added the Gravatar a while back, and had forgotten about it, it would look like the service had grabbed it from the other services.

This is not a huge problem by any means, it just jarred me a little.

To be fair though, your potential forgetfulness wouldn't be their fault. Sadly, I do see how it could be misconstrued though.

We fixed this issue giving the option to change your avatar from your CP.

Possibly, but you don't usually try to login before signing up... right?

I did just now, just to see how they handled unregistered users.. I know what you mean tho :)

I sometimes do that when I'm not sure whether I'm already signed up or not. Seeing my portrait (if I had a gravatar) would suggest to me that I did register an account. It's probably not an issue for a service like GoSquared though.

They might put a line underneath it saying, "Image provided by Gravatar"

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