Shorah everyone,
I didn't see this posted in the "Known Issues" sticky, so am posting it here. There seems to be a visible avatar state weirdness that strikes from time to time. For instance, earlier today a buddy of mine went /afk for a while and appeared to be sitting /afk to me at first, but then appeared to stand up after a while. He was still /afk from his POV and hadn't returned yet, so was confused that I'd been trying to talk with him in the meanwhile. From his POV, his avvie was still sitting /afk while to me his avvie was standing idle.
Something similar happened last week when a bunch of us were getting situated for a group photo. I was standing but appeared to be sitting to the person taking the KI photo. Apparently, after I jumped in place my avvie looked right to others.
I'm assuming this is a server glitch?