To eliminate the chance of farming based on the appearance of identicons: use their own username in combination as a 'random salt' when generating for everyone else. So, for me you would see the...
To eliminate the chance of farming based on the appearance of identicons: use their own username in combination as a 'random salt' when generating for everyone else.
So, for me you would see the identicon generated by the text "jtxt.Awoo" others would see me as something else. "jtxt.yourusername"
Everyone sees it for what it is: a clientside unique visual idenitifier of everyone else.
(Perhaps also: let each user tune it, turn off idenicons / or to increase the effect, use it as a subtle color/texture in the background of each post... allow them to change the 'random salt' to something else, so they see everyone as something else.)
To eliminate the chance of farming based on the appearance of identicons: use their own username in combination as a 'random salt' when generating for everyone else.
So, for me you would see the identicon generated by the text "jtxt.Awoo" others would see me as something else. "jtxt.yourusername"
Everyone sees it for what it is: a clientside unique visual idenitifier of everyone else.
(Perhaps also: let each user tune it, turn off idenicons / or to increase the effect, use it as a subtle color/texture in the background of each post... allow them to change the 'random salt' to something else, so they see everyone as something else.)