A bug?

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So, I made a new post and it was the first on the next page, but when I viewed it, something caught my eye:
[img][800:459]http://i45.tinypic.com/scqnet.png[/img]
As you can see, for some reason, my profile info on the left is all squished in?
On the page before it is fine, but right there it is quite small.
On the page before there are people with longer sentences then mine so I don't think it is the size of the sentence, but I don't know why it did that.

Anyone else ever seen that?

EDIT:
When someone else posted it became normal again...

Yes, I have seen that many times, somewhat infrequently though. I can't quite figure out why it does this.
Can someone explain?

Did it for 2 posts this time:
[img][800:357]http://i46.tinypic.com/fn771d.png[/img]
Confusing...

The avatar display for each post is stacked in a column, and the width of that column on a single page is determined by the widest avatar on display.
So if someone with an avatar wider than those currently displayed adds a post and it's displayed on the same screen as the other narrower ones then the space used for all the other avatars will expand too.

Before I made this post the column width was determined by the existing avatar widths:
CokaCola: 60 px
jackbus01: 60 px
so the column would remain narrow.

In the screenshot, Moonhawk's avatar width is 64 px and 4 px difference in width between that and CokaCola's avatar is practically invisible.

The width of my avatar is 86 px and so the whole column has been resized horizontally as a result of this post, therefore the "narrow display" effect won't now be as obvious.
If someone with an avatar of the maximum width (130 px) was to post here then the effect wouldn't be visible at all.

Check out how the avatar column appears here for an illustration of all this: http://www.wrongplanet.net/postp4654237.html#4654237
Both TheFormulaOne and NeueZiel avatar widths are 130 px, therefore the whole column was forced to the maximum width by the first to occur.

Seems as though it would make more sense to just have it set to the 130px max by default

for one thing this is a buggy site, so course not, that is crazy talk
for 2, what if someone had a profile pic outside of specifications?
and just wanted to post to show that my avatar will cause it to resize slightly

Nice try - but they wouldn't have been able to upload it...
It worked!

Of course. I can't believe after 1162 posts, I've never figured that out.
It is interesting the avatars are not required to be a fixed size though.
Thanks for the explanation.