How come, when you change your avatar & signature...

[Finch Platte]

...it changes in every post you've ever made? Seems like if you update your stuff, the older posts should stay the same. Would be more entertaining this way- to see all the changes we've made as we go along.

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[MindGoneHaywire]

Can't answer 'why,' but that just seems to be the way it is. I've seen this on other boards, too. One guy found a gif of descending symbols in green on black ala the Matrix & placed his name on top of that & then all of a sudden it was in every post he'd ever written.

[Dusty Chalk]

To save space -- they don't actually store anything but the subject and the text of your post with the thread (along with the usual administrative BS -- pointers, etc.) -- everything else about you is stored in a record about you (sig, avatar, etc.).