How do we differentiate posters same avatar?

They should really let everyone customize their avatars so we know who’s who..

A little username flair or unique avatar would make things so much less confusing!

At this point, we need detective badges just to figure out who’s who!

I agree. I have gotten lost in a few threads attempting to follow the dialog.

When I migrated the old site to the system i made - i moved a lot of content by hand to make sure i didn't import a lot of low quality junk. Many of the users who made those posts were from some 20 years ago - so i started with everything under a legacy user - with a note about who the OP was. I have since backfilled many of those missing users and reassigned posts to them... but there are still lots to go for the lower post count users.

Custom uploaded avatars sadly results in a giant amount of dick pics sadly... or worse (CP)... so i wasn't overly fond of having to police that. The current system supports some 350k unique avatars - but nothing stops people from copying someone they like.

If you guys have any suggestions for improvements - i'm all ears!