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I think you've just hit the solution Ada! I like this option because we let the user put the avatar wherever the users wants, from comments to blog posts to snips.

New approach:

Just like emoticon mechanism , in user's snip he can upload his avatar photo there, and put some code to enable his avatar.

So, combines those 2 actions, maybe we can do:

1. Let user writes some configurations at his owned snip. User can upload his avatar there too.
2. configurations maybe like macro format:
1. {useSnipSnapAvatar:myavatar.gif} means show the image "myavatar.gif" for his avatar.
2. {useGravatar:somebody@somewhere} means show the avatar from gravatar account.
3. {useMyBlogLog:url} means show the avatar from mybloglog account.
3. and then, When show some snips, check this snip's owner's config of avatar, and show it or not.