Placement of names should remain below avatar so that all avatars will begin at the start of the post since not everyone has a title. Depending on if you're keeping the ovals as they are, I'd think it best to leave them at -19px. If you're changing them to a smaller icon, then 5px may be fine depending on how far it pushes down other content.
Remembering that the heights are:
• 122px - .forum-post__body w/20 pad (162px) and time-below (+27 for 201px)
• 164px - .post-avatar w/o title and w/date
• 181px - .post-avatar w/title and w/date
• 201px - .forum-post
So unless the icons are removed or made very little, there will be added whitespace on posts that don't have enough lines to go past the 122px minimum height and those without signatures. Moving down the membership-date, for myself, makes the area seem really bloated on the left of the post especially those with titles.
The smallest the names would have to be is 16px, although I doubt I'd see a player whose name is long enough to warrant it (
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). Going with that solution though means that you're going to need to make/alter the J/L/FMod icons to fit in.
I don't know if I dislike have the icon be in a circle or it overlapping the figure. This might change, but I have something else I might want to begin looking at (timestamps - or I could get used to them below posts... or maybe not).