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If you change your avator Q ?

  • 19-11-2007 11:06pm
    #1
    cazzy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,027 ✭✭✭


    If you change your avator why does it change on your old posts ?

    What an odd word - avator.


Comments

  • #2
    monkeyfudge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,216 ✭✭✭✭monkeyfudge


    It's avatar.

    Traditionally it was the human or animal embodiment of a god....

    On the internet it's a graphic that represents a user.


  • #3
    AlmightyCushion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,125 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    Yep, it's the same with your sig.


  • #4
    GhostInTheRuins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,978 ✭✭✭GhostInTheRuins


    It's avatar

    Little know fact: "Avatar" was forced to change its name due to copyright issues. Combining the words "Savage" and "Avatar", the band arrived with Savatage.


  • #5
    Fast_Mover
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,619 ✭✭✭Fast_Mover


    Great cazzy your changing your avatar...about time!!!:p:D


  • #6
    Sam Vimes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,611 ✭✭✭✭Sam Vimes


    cazzy wrote: »
    If you change your avator why does it change on your old posts ?

    What an odd word - avator.

    boards pages aren't stored on the server in the format you see, they're generated each time. for example, it doesn't store (simplified and mostly made up):
    cazzy

    registered user

    this is my post

    cazzy's sig


    it stores something like:
    usernumber=1234

    registered user

    postnumber=1818181818

    signature=sig(usernumber) <---that line gets the current signature for the above user

    and it queries the database for that info each time

    its all very technical :p


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  • #7
    leninbenjamin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,983 ✭✭✭leninbenjamin


    because each thread is generated from a database subject to a query for the user... there would only be one entry for your avatar, and when you change it the results from each query would change...

    forums aren't like your average site when everything is a static html page...

    Edit: Vimes beat me too it. and a better explanation too.... i'll go crawl in a hole and die now.


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