The special rating of Gravatar

Look ma' I'm rated X!
How to spend more time to update an avatar than to update your status?

A couple of days ago, I received an invitation to test 12seconds.tv, which is a video status updates. In twelve seconds. Which is short for talkative people as me. But a nice way to familiarize yourself with video, if you are not well acquainted with. As me ;-)

Anyway, before testing the service, I wanted to remind me how was seesmic.com, the "twitter of video" without a limit time.

Login on seesmic, I once again saw that my avatar was still that horrible white on blue G from Gravatar. I already have spoken about that with Thomas from seesmic one month ago. From GetSatisfaction and via email. But both of us did not find a solution, despite of Thomas' efforts and disponibility.

So, reading that other people had the same issue, I once again decided to explore Gravatar to try to find out how and why sometimes it displays my pic and sometimes not. No need to be a geek, in fact. This time, bingo!

The issue is really simple. I don't know why, neither how, but my picture had been rated X by Gravatar. And it sounds, which is a good news, that by default Seesmic does not allow picture rated X from Gravatar.

Easy as a pie, you just have to know it... which is written nowhere on Seesmic. Nor that Gravatar rates pictures. Or I'm blind, which is also a correct hypothesis ;-) If so, please put it somewhere more viewable!

Anyway, if your Gravatar is not displayed on some websites just run checking if you're rated X. If so, just change your rating or upload a new avatar then chose the new one after rating it G !

Note: I am not really offended to have been rated X but... quand même!

Better, isn't it?