diff --git a/app/rest/auth/avatar.go b/app/rest/auth/avatar.go
index 08744813..b4014f35 100644
--- a/app/rest/auth/avatar.go
+++ b/app/rest/auth/avatar.go
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ func (p *AvatarProxy) Put(u store.User) (avatarURL string, err error) {
 
 	// get ID and location of locally cached avatar
 	encID := u.ID // all locally created comments have userID encoded hex, imported extra need encoding.
-	if _, err := strconv.ParseUint(u.ID, 16, 64); err != nil {
+	if _, e := strconv.ParseUint(u.ID, 16, 64); e != nil {
 		encID = rest.EncodeID(u.ID)
 	}
 	location := p.location(encID) // location adds partion to path