I found a glitch also If you have 2 social group forums and then you move 1 group to the other social group forum it does not update the statistics for the new social forum (discussion and messages) and it will keep the statistics on the old one forever even if you empty out the social forum it...
That being said I am trying to figure out how to stop the avatar from being resized to fit a specific height/width when it is TOO SMALL. I understand resizing the image when its too large to make it fit but if I make myself a nice avatar thats lets say 100px by 100px under the current settings...
Admin CP -> Appearance -> Templates -> message_user_info
If you do this and replace
<xen:avatar user="$user" size="m" /> with this
<xen:avatar user="$user" size="l" img="true" />
and then style properties > Message Layout > user info container width: 170
style properties > Message Layout >...