[@johnconners Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

See: https://trac.bbpress.org/ticket/870

You can make the change yourself to fix this using this changeset:

https://trac.bbpress.org/changeset/1499

Or alternatively you can go directly into your MySQL database and remove the row from the bb_topicmeta table with the meta_key of ‘avatars_show’.