# Old user avatars in quoted text?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/old-user-avatars-in-quoted-text/95798>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Tags:** fixed\
**Created:** [August 28, 2018, 2:16am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/old-user-avatars-in-quoted-text/95798 "2018-08-28T02:16:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![gdpelican](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/gdpelican/32/81308_2.png) [@gdpelican](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gdpelican)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2018, 2:16am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/old-user-avatars-in-quoted-text/95798/1 "2018-08-28T02:16:46Z")

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I’m not sure if this is _quite_ a bug, or just some behaviour that I don’t quite get, but it appears that quoting someone in a post stores their avatar at that point in time with the quote. Like here:

 ![37%20PM](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/6/0/60b9b3bd3d45f93798b6767b4c1f70e721369360.png)

It seems like this might be a regression of this thing:  
[https://meta.discourse.org/t/after-changing-avatar-quotes-still-show-the-old-avatar/21122](https://meta.discourse.org/t/after-changing-avatar-quotes-still-show-the-old-avatar/21122)

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