Avatars in the Likes section of a Post
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Hello, I would like to disable the display of avatars in the likes section of all posts, like I have done in the comments section. I have searched extensively the settings pages and the support pages but found no alternative other than disabling likes all together. To me it is a matter of aesthetics not to display avatars on my blog. Can you help? Just applying to likes all the avatar preferences already recorded for comments at options-discussion.php would be perfect for me. BTW, how do you deal with an X-rated avatar liking a post?
Blog url: http://panospace.wordpress.com/The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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I’m sorry but there is no alternative. Also note that we cannot remove “likes” by like button spammers regardless of what the gravatar rating is. :(
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Hi again,
This is a peer support forum and I’m a Volunteer ie. a user just like you. I have answered questions here for 6 1/2 years. I want the same thing you want and I will flag this thread for a Staff response but I know my answer is correct. -
At this time, Gravatars cannot be hidden from Likes on a post.
You can, however, control the maximum allowed rating for a Gravatar via Settings -> Discussion in your blog’s Dashboard.
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Thank you for your kind explanations. I never doubted the correctness of your answer. I asked the status of the reply because I wanted to know whether it is official or not.
Thank you also for flagging this thread for Staff’s attention. I guess you *do* have a (deserved) superior status. I actually tried to file a support ticket directly to staff, like I was able to do in the past, but it seems that users filing support tickets are now forced to go via the forum. I intended to avoid the forum because I knew it would not be useful to me.
For now I have disabled likes from my blog. At least that was easy and all gravatars disappeared, which got me what I wanted in the short term. I rather not risk an offensive gravatar (or for that matter, a gravatar at all). Now Automattic has the time to fix this bug and make sure that like button spammers can’t steal my readers’ screen in 48 x 48 pixels instalments :)
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Can you please notify me when I will be able to hide Gravatars from Likes? All I would like to see, in terms of Likes, is a one liner saying that “N other users like this post”.
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@timethief: I was writing the above three paragraphs text when the other answers came in. This is another reason why I prefer mailing lists to web based forums: I see in directly in a familiar user interface if newer messages arrived without leaving the page.
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P.S. I am a minimalist, not only in blogging. I have removed the social networking sharing buttons display from front page of my blog. I’ve also disabled avatar display which is why I did not recall the maximum rating setting macmanx pointed to. Now I’m considering disabling the like button too.
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