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SignID: an avatar as an alternative to Identicon, and MonsterID Wavatar

What is an avatar?

An avatar is an image generated uniquely identifiable from each commentator on a blog in order to associate the various comments to users. To do this can be considered the IP address, but doing so would have different avatars for the same user who commented in two sessions (with different IP), separated, or email address.

This image uniquely identifies a user, some sites allow registration and entering your avatar. This necessarily leads to the interference that can post a comment you must first have made a recording. The way to overcome this problem exists and is very simple. There are some sites, the best known is Gravatar which combines an image to a hash. The hash can be calculated from the email address of the user while the image may be a Identicon, or MonsterID Wavatar as shown.