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I was playing around in Careers and found the employers search page for candidates.

Clicking around on sample profiles, I noticed most have the default gravatar picture, but some don't have that default gravatar, leaving just a blank space there.

Example for a candidate with a default gravatar:

And a gravatarless profile:

Does this have any meaning? Or is it just me being too nitpicking?

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    I suspect that the normal profile photo has been replaced by a uniform anonymous picture. The other profile has no photo itself, so it didn't need anonymizing either.
    – Martijn Pieters
    Commented Jan 19, 2014 at 0:07
  • @MartijnPieters how can profile have no photo? Have you ever seen such profile?
    – Shadow Wizard
    Commented Jan 19, 2014 at 0:18
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    There is a checkbox on the profile edit form to not show your gravatar.
    – Martijn Pieters
    Commented Jan 19, 2014 at 0:26
  • @MartijnPieters cool, totally missed that! Pretty sure that's the case indeed, feel free to post this as answer.
    – Shadow Wizard
    Commented Jan 19, 2014 at 10:26
  • @Peter thanks, guess I'll never get my head around these things!
    – Shadow Wizard
    Commented Jan 22, 2014 at 20:20

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The sample profiles are real profiles, anonymized. In the process, real gravatar images are replaced by the anonymous person silhouette.

However, not all profiles have a gravatar, you can switch off the display of the image:

display gravatar switch

Presumably, the profile with no profile picture is one that has that option unchecked.

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    Makes perfect sense, thanks! FHRC is not complete but I forgive you... ;)
    – Shadow Wizard
    Commented Jan 19, 2014 at 11:54
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    Let's not start the FHRC-completeness holy wars all over again! They were worse than the red vs green wars we just managed to bring to a stalemate...
    – Martijn Pieters
    Commented Jan 19, 2014 at 11:58
  • If you're not 100% sure: what does clicking that "what is this?" link to?
    – Arjan
    Commented Jan 19, 2014 at 12:37
  • It links to the gravatar website explaining what a gravatar is.
    – Martijn Pieters
    Commented Jan 19, 2014 at 13:08

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