This sounds like something browser side is blocking account traffic. I'd suggest disabling any extensions, add ons, anti virus or VPN you may have running and sometimes this can block certain types of traffic, especially after a surprise update.
If the issue was DDB side, I'd expect the same behaviour logged in on incognito as not.
This sounds like something browser side is blocking account traffic. I'd suggest disabling any extensions, add ons, anti virus or VPN you may have running and sometimes this can block certain types of traffic, especially after a surprise update.
If the issue was DDB side, I'd expect the same behaviour logged in on incognito as not.
Unfortunately, that's not it. I disabled everything in Chrome, including native extensions like Google Docs, restarted my laptop and took a look. Imported character images still aren't displaying.
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Active characters:
Carric Aquissar, elven wannabe artist in his deconstructionist period (Archfey warlock) Lan Kidogo, mapach archaeologist and treasure hunter (Knowledge cleric) Mardan Ferres, elven private investigator obsessed with that one unsolved murder (Assassin rogue) Xhekhetiel, halfling survivor of a Betrayer Gods cult (Runechild sorcerer/fighter)
This sounds like something browser side is blocking account traffic. I'd suggest disabling any extensions, add ons, anti virus or VPN you may have running and sometimes this can block certain types of traffic, especially after a surprise update.
If the issue was DDB side, I'd expect the same behaviour logged in on incognito as not.
Unfortunately, that's not it. I disabled everything in Chrome, including native extensions like Google Docs, restarted my laptop and took a look. Imported character images still aren't displaying.
My steps were actually in regard to another user who was having a slightly different site issue. Avatars failing to load is a site side caching issue that can usually be fixed by logging out and then back in again
This sounds like something browser side is blocking account traffic. I'd suggest disabling any extensions, add ons, anti virus or VPN you may have running and sometimes this can block certain types of traffic, especially after a surprise update.
If the issue was DDB side, I'd expect the same behaviour logged in on incognito as not.
I'd have to disagree with extraneous circumstances causing this issue, aside from extensions or add ons of course, considering I could log in to my account in the Incognito window and everything was just fine.
Today I am not getting whatever the issue was on the dndbeyond front page like I was getting yesterday after logging in (regular browser window, not incognito), though character portraits on https://www.dndbeyond.com/my-characters are still not loading. Granted yesterday's issue and my reporting today are from my work PC, so my time to actually mess around and use dndbeyond is limited and sporadic.
The character portraits issue has been ongoing and on multiple computers. On my home PC I've done everything I can, disabling extensions, VPN, antivirus, clear cache and hard reload, and the only thing that temporarily resolves it is clearing my cookies.
What is the "Ratings" part of the dndbeyond cookie used for?
Why is the value of the Ratings part of the dndbeyond cookie in my browser currently 2,480 characters long?
What on dndbeyond do I need to turn off to empty this value?
Will this resolve the 400 error message I repeatedly get on my character page or when browsing monsters or when reading my purchased content and the pictures just randomly don't bother to load?
Found a work around. I'll tell this story with pictures.
I'm in a west marches group that has at least 4 different campaigns on dndbeyond because there are so many people in it. Checking out those campaign pages shows a great example of what I believe the issue here is.
That. See those empty places PC avatars are supposed to show up? Most.. ain't.
I wonder what that looks like in the console. A good mechanic knows what to look for under the hood. I at least know to look under the hood.
So how do I fix this? I have to use an extension. I personally use the Cookie-Editor extension.
I want to delete one thing from the dndbeyond website cookie. I want to delete the "Ratings" portion of the dndbeyond cookie. If you're having this issue, go ahead and check that value out and please explain why that single value is thousands of bytes long!!!
After this we stroll on over to refresh our page. F5? nope. Ctrl+R? nope. I just right click on the Reload button and go right for empty cache and hard reload.*
A lot less error messages and character avatars are showing up. Yay.
Fixed, right? Problem solved? You'd think so, but no. Go visit 1 homebrew anything description page (EDIT: Or any forum thread). Go to a different campaign with several character avatars missing and you have to do all of this again. Use the site, and especially the homebrew tools to any extent (EDIT: Or browse the forums) and your browser's website cookie's length will overrun and cause this issue.
If you clear your cookies on a very regular basis or I guess never use homebrew, which I don't even know how to deal with people that don't use homebrew, you might never even notice this issue. Or you're so used to there not being any avatars that you may not even realize you're missing them because your website browser is thousands upon thousands of bytes long.
I have a ticket sent in and even provided a desktop capture of producing this issue on demand and I'm hoping deep in the dark of dndnbeyond's coder nerd dungeon, one of them says one day "oh shit, I left that loop open" and bam it's fixed.
But until this fairy tale ending is complete, the above procedure should fix this issue instantaneously, albeit temporarily.
* Subsequent testing while putting this together gave positive results with just a Hard Reload Ctrl+Shift-R
STOP UPVOTING THIS COMMENT
Forum comment upvotes may be the cause of this issue.
If you clear your cookies on a very regular basis or I guess never use homebrew, which I don't even know how to deal with people that don't use homebrew, you might never even notice this issue. Or you're so used to there not being any avatars that you may not even realize you're missing them because your website browser is thousands upon thousands of bytes long.
Cool job isolating that cookie!
The magic number is 8k based on default configuration on the servers (see my post prior). But it does come back to while clearing cookies is a workaround, it is only that; a workaround. The server configuration could be changed to accept larger cookies, but that only delays the problem. Addressing the cookie code is the better fix, but I admin, not sure on what the effort would be, as I am not a Front End developer.
TBF I didn't find it, Cyrantir found it when troubleshooting this issue with me. He's the creator and primary author of the AboveVTT extension, which pulls images from dndbeyond to use for it's character tokens, monster tokens, and any official maps (provided someone has access to them through purchased or shared content). You can see how this issue can be exacerbated when you're using image pulls from a site that gives you repeated 400 errors.
EDIT
Please note, no dndbeyond specific browser extensions were loaded when creating the above screenshots and no browser extensions were loaded at all for the desktop capture video sent in with the support ticket.
Excellent work Mairondil - I was having the same issue a few months ago (with a host of error messages). Clearing the cookies seemed to work in the short term then the problem came back. I tried one last time after a suggestion from the mods and, so far, clearing the cookies appear to have fixed the problem.
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Same problem. Microsoft Edge. Thank you, Mairondil.
Just doing Ctrl-F5 didn't work.
Had to go into "Cookies & Site Data". "www.dndbeyond.com" site. Delete the cookie entry "Ratings". then Ctrl-F5 (on the page with the problem image). That seems to have worked. ... until this happens again.
(and must be repeated for every part of the site with an issue. I was having blank Character Portraits and Forum Avatar.) this is not the first time I have had this problem. Last time, I had to go scorched earth, and delete all cookies for the site, and then re-do everything. :( Also, in "cookies", when you search "dndbeyond"; there are 4 sites that come up. just an added bit of confusion in finding the right one. As alluded to above; if this error is truly caused by such a simple and easily corrected mistake; yet has been left this way, for so long; it really damages consumer confidence in the dev team for DDB. (along with several other issues of this nature.)
Just throwing ideas out there. I do have over 1,400 private, published, and deleted homebrew things that I have created. Would that have any effect on this issue considering the part of the cookie effected triggers on a homebrew page?
Further research I have found the the dndbeyond.com cookie's "Ratings" field is only populated when viewing a published homebrew description page or viewing a published homebrew description on your My Creations page. This field does not get added when viewing the description of private homebrew.
The Value of the "Ratings" field in my site cookie currently 3778 bytes long and is:
dndbeyond pages known to trigger the Ratings field in the site cookie:
Published homebrew descriptions (actual page or view on My Creations)
Forum threads
So, it appears to be a cookie that specifically tied to "Click to like" When you hover over one of the numbers on click to like you can see a modal url. For example, when I hover over the 5 likes, on your 11/4 post I see:
When I navigate to that URL, I see a list of who marked that post with a positive rating. So now the cookie, appears to be a list of posts with ratings. After taking your snippet above to URL Decode Online | URLDecoder the string is a delimited list. Notation '%7C' is a delemiter, and inside that are comma segmented data:
Note the 15,xxxxxx,1 are in most of them. If I had to guess, the '15' notes it came from a forum, then the post number, and then the 1 means that you (Mariondil) ranked it up. Since you can't rank up your own post you wont find the example of 15-3717553 in your own cookie.
A second variant is in the data as well and I think it is the homebrews: 112130694,1975890,1 112130694,1972074,-1 are examples. In this case I am sure that the 1 or -1 is whether you ranked the item up or down. The second bit is the item's number, and the first bit is probably the category of the item (feat vs, magic items.) as a guess.
So the cookie seems to be a cache of everything YOU liked (or didn't like in the case of homebrew).
So the more active you are in forums and homebrews with the rating system creates this super cookie. As to WHY this cookie is needed, that is completely unclear. it isn't ALL ratings, its just your own.
So the solution to not have to continuously clear cookies, or at least this value is to no longer rate any forum post or homebrew.
Problem solved bug closed. /sarcasm
It will be interesting if this issue is actually fixed or not now that the root cause has been identified by the community.
Acutally it does help the moderators: there is a way to reproduce this. Each thumbs up is about 13 bytes. What a tester needs to do, is to login, and thumbs up over 200-400 posts, and the cookie should explode. It be faster on homebrew items, as they are much large payload. of about 20 bytes per like/dislike.
Posts you've Liked have an X instead of up-arrow next to them. You can click that to un-like.
Edit: If you go to your Profile and mouseover the Thanks, it'll say how many you've received and given, so you'll know the scope of it. Then I guess look at your Posts, follow them to their threads, and see what other posts you've liked. I imagine starting with old before new will help keep things from being too "sudden" a change.
Edit2: Aww man and I just passed my 1337th post without noticing!
This sounds like something browser side is blocking account traffic. I'd suggest disabling any extensions, add ons, anti virus or VPN you may have running and sometimes this can block certain types of traffic, especially after a surprise update.
If the issue was DDB side, I'd expect the same behaviour logged in on incognito as not.
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Unfortunately, that's not it. I disabled everything in Chrome, including native extensions like Google Docs, restarted my laptop and took a look. Imported character images still aren't displaying.
Active characters:
Carric Aquissar, elven wannabe artist in his deconstructionist period (Archfey warlock)
Lan Kidogo, mapach archaeologist and treasure hunter (Knowledge cleric)
Mardan Ferres, elven private investigator obsessed with that one unsolved murder (Assassin rogue)
Xhekhetiel, halfling survivor of a Betrayer Gods cult (Runechild sorcerer/fighter)
My steps were actually in regard to another user who was having a slightly different site issue. Avatars failing to load is a site side caching issue that can usually be fixed by logging out and then back in again
Find my D&D Beyond articles here
I'd have to disagree with extraneous circumstances causing this issue, aside from extensions or add ons of course, considering I could log in to my account in the Incognito window and everything was just fine.
Today I am not getting whatever the issue was on the dndbeyond front page like I was getting yesterday after logging in (regular browser window, not incognito), though character portraits on https://www.dndbeyond.com/my-characters are still not loading. Granted yesterday's issue and my reporting today are from my work PC, so my time to actually mess around and use dndbeyond is limited and sporadic.
The character portraits issue has been ongoing and on multiple computers. On my home PC I've done everything I can, disabling extensions, VPN, antivirus, clear cache and hard reload, and the only thing that temporarily resolves it is clearing my cookies.
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Bug is still happening.
MS Edge. 32-bit.
Trying to clear it. trying clearing cookies. trying to refresh cache....
Clearing Cookies: no. Didn't resolve.
Clearing Cached Images: yes. That seems to have fixed it.
What is the "Ratings" part of the dndbeyond cookie used for?
Why is the value of the Ratings part of the dndbeyond cookie in my browser currently 2,480 characters long?
What on dndbeyond do I need to turn off to empty this value?
Will this resolve the 400 error message I repeatedly get on my character page or when browsing monsters or when reading my purchased content and the pictures just randomly don't bother to load?
How to: Replace DEX in your AC | Jump & Suffocation stats | Build a (Spell & class effect buff system | Wild Shape effect system) | Tool Proficiencies as Custom Skills | Spells at higher levels explained | Superior Fighting/Martial Adept Fix | Snippet Codes Explored - Subclasses | Snippet Math Theory | Homebrew Weapons Explained
Check out my: FEATS | MAGIC ITEMS | MONSTERS | SUBCLASSES Artificer Specialist: Weaveblade
Dndbeyond images not loading A PERMANENT WORKAROUND!!! (thank you Jay_Lane)
Found a work around. I'll tell this story with pictures.
I'm in a west marches group that has at least 4 different campaigns on dndbeyond because there are so many people in it. Checking out those campaign pages shows a great example of what I believe the issue here is.
I wonder what that looks like in the console. A good mechanic knows what to look for under the hood. I at least know to look under the hood.
So how do I fix this? I have to use an extension. I personally use the Cookie-Editor extension.
I want to delete one thing from the dndbeyond website cookie. I want to delete the "Ratings" portion of the dndbeyond cookie. If you're having this issue, go ahead and check that value out and please explain why that single value is thousands of bytes long!!!
After this we stroll on over to refresh our page. F5? nope. Ctrl+R? nope. I just right click on the Reload button and go right for empty cache and hard reload.*
A lot less error messages and character avatars are showing up. Yay.
Fixed, right? Problem solved? You'd think so, but no. Go visit 1 homebrew anything description page (EDIT: Or any forum thread). Go to a different campaign with several character avatars missing and you have to do all of this again. Use the site, and especially the homebrew tools to any extent (EDIT: Or browse the forums) and your browser's website cookie's length will overrun and cause this issue.
If you clear your cookies on a very regular basis or I guess never use homebrew, which I don't even know how to deal with people that don't use homebrew, you might never even notice this issue. Or you're so used to there not being any avatars that you may not even realize you're missing them because your website browser is thousands upon thousands of bytes long.
I have a ticket sent in and even provided a desktop capture of producing this issue on demand and I'm hoping deep in the dark of dndnbeyond's coder nerd dungeon, one of them says one day "oh shit, I left that loop open" and bam it's fixed.
But until this fairy tale ending is complete, the above procedure should fix this issue instantaneously, albeit temporarily.
* Subsequent testing while putting this together gave positive results with just a Hard Reload Ctrl+Shift-R
STOP UPVOTING THIS COMMENT
Forum comment upvotes may be the cause of this issue.
How to: Replace DEX in your AC | Jump & Suffocation stats | Build a (Spell & class effect buff system | Wild Shape effect system) | Tool Proficiencies as Custom Skills | Spells at higher levels explained | Superior Fighting/Martial Adept Fix | Snippet Codes Explored - Subclasses | Snippet Math Theory | Homebrew Weapons Explained
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Dndbeyond images not loading A PERMANENT WORKAROUND!!! (thank you Jay_Lane)
Cool job isolating that cookie!
The magic number is 8k based on default configuration on the servers (see my post prior). But it does come back to while clearing cookies is a workaround, it is only that; a workaround. The server configuration could be changed to accept larger cookies, but that only delays the problem. Addressing the cookie code is the better fix, but I admin, not sure on what the effort would be, as I am not a Front End developer.
TBF I didn't find it, Cyrantir found it when troubleshooting this issue with me. He's the creator and primary author of the AboveVTT extension, which pulls images from dndbeyond to use for it's character tokens, monster tokens, and any official maps (provided someone has access to them through purchased or shared content). You can see how this issue can be exacerbated when you're using image pulls from a site that gives you repeated 400 errors.
EDIT
Please note, no dndbeyond specific browser extensions were loaded when creating the above screenshots and no browser extensions were loaded at all for the desktop capture video sent in with the support ticket.
How to: Replace DEX in your AC | Jump & Suffocation stats | Build a (Spell & class effect buff system | Wild Shape effect system) | Tool Proficiencies as Custom Skills | Spells at higher levels explained | Superior Fighting/Martial Adept Fix | Snippet Codes Explored - Subclasses | Snippet Math Theory | Homebrew Weapons Explained
Check out my: FEATS | MAGIC ITEMS | MONSTERS | SUBCLASSES Artificer Specialist: Weaveblade
Dndbeyond images not loading A PERMANENT WORKAROUND!!! (thank you Jay_Lane)
Excellent work Mairondil - I was having the same issue a few months ago (with a host of error messages). Clearing the cookies seemed to work in the short term then the problem came back. I tried one last time after a suggestion from the mods and, so far, clearing the cookies appear to have fixed the problem.
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Same problem. Microsoft Edge. Thank you, Mairondil.
Just doing Ctrl-F5 didn't work.
Had to go into "Cookies & Site Data". "www.dndbeyond.com" site. Delete the cookie entry "Ratings".
then Ctrl-F5 (on the page with the problem image).
That seems to have worked. ... until this happens again.
(and must be repeated for every part of the site with an issue. I was having blank Character Portraits and Forum Avatar.)
this is not the first time I have had this problem. Last time, I had to go scorched earth, and delete all cookies for the site, and then re-do everything. :(
Also, in "cookies", when you search "dndbeyond"; there are 4 sites that come up. just an added bit of confusion in finding the right one.
As alluded to above; if this error is truly caused by such a simple and easily corrected mistake; yet has been left this way, for so long; it really damages consumer confidence in the dev team for DDB. (along with several other issues of this nature.)
Just throwing ideas out there. I do have over 1,400 private, published, and deleted homebrew things that I have created. Would that have any effect on this issue considering the part of the cookie effected triggers on a homebrew page?
How to: Replace DEX in your AC | Jump & Suffocation stats | Build a (Spell & class effect buff system | Wild Shape effect system) | Tool Proficiencies as Custom Skills | Spells at higher levels explained | Superior Fighting/Martial Adept Fix | Snippet Codes Explored - Subclasses | Snippet Math Theory | Homebrew Weapons Explained
Check out my: FEATS | MAGIC ITEMS | MONSTERS | SUBCLASSES Artificer Specialist: Weaveblade
Dndbeyond images not loading A PERMANENT WORKAROUND!!! (thank you Jay_Lane)
Further research I have found the the dndbeyond.com cookie's "Ratings" field is only populated when viewing a published homebrew description page or viewing a published homebrew description on your My Creations page. This field does not get added when viewing the description of private homebrew.
The Value of the "Ratings" field in my site cookie currently 3778 bytes long and is:
I'm just at a loss as to what I can do anymore.
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Wait, forum threads trigger the field too.
dndbeyond pages known to trigger the Ratings field in the site cookie:
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Dndbeyond images not loading A PERMANENT WORKAROUND!!! (thank you Jay_Lane)
So, it appears to be a cookie that specifically tied to "Click to like" When you hover over one of the numbers on click to like you can see a modal url. For example, when I hover over the 5 likes, on your 11/4 post I see:
https://www.dndbeyond.com/comments/rating-modal/15-3717553
When I navigate to that URL, I see a list of who marked that post with a positive rating. So now the cookie, appears to be a list of posts with ratings. After taking your snippet above to URL Decode Online | URLDecoder the string is a delimited list. Notation '%7C' is a delemiter, and inside that are comma segmented data:
15,682817,1|15,506780,1|15,766385,1|15,1008587,1|15,1593086,1|15,24735,1|15,1658799,1|15,1653828,1|15,1515626,1|15,1726674,1|15,1935200,1|15,1932956,1|15,1549413,1|15,1989047,1|15,1990265,1|15,1990304,1|15,1990039,1|15,2012804,1|15,2041540,1|15,2088247,1|15,1069692,1|15,1879599,1|15,2094603,1|15,2096659,1|15,2096940,1|15,1635402,1|15,2096307,1|15,2093776,1|15,2098956,1|15,2098908,1|15,2100228,1|15,2100877,1|15,2103145,1|15,2103122,1|15,2104106,1|15,2104078,1|15,2105180,1|15,2105812,1|15,2108576,1|15,2110006,1|112130694,1975890,1|112130694,1972074,-1|15,2044832,1|15,2112202,1|15,2112231,1|15,2114182,1|15,2115529,1|15,2114138,1|15,2120434,1|15,2113321,1|15,2128321,1|15,2127147,1|15,2128649,1|15,2127778,1|15,2131132,1|15,2133850,1|15,2132039,1|15,2134188,1|15,2138247,1|15,2139976,1|15,2140325,1|15,2140517,1|15,2142087,1|15,2144043,1|15,2146270,1|15,2148265,1|15,2149279,1|15,2151017,1|15,2154324,1|15,2155622,1|15,2153301,1|15,2171145,1|15,2173543,1|15,2177113,1|15,2206623,1|15,2207338,1|15,2207701,1|15,2208314,1|15,2208740,1|15,2208771,1|15,2209350,1|15,2211910,1|15,2211363,1|15,1834676,1|15,1839901,1|15,2215447,1|15,2215757,1|15,1964629,1|15,2220439,1|15,2224140,1|15,2103184,1|15,2226431,1|15,2227025,1|15,2227608,1|15,2234240,1|15,2230731,1|15,2239269,1|15,2239249,1|15,2239984,1|15,2239251,1|15,2247089,1|15,2247079,1|15,2244032,1|15,2246236,1|15,2246435,1|15,2249303,1|15,2274100,1|15,2274929,1|15,2279493,1|15,103396,1|15,2263399,1|15,2263901,1|15,2280453,1|15,1137238,1|15,2276084,1|15,2305536,1|15,2198529,1|15,2198447,1|15,2356820,1|15,2360234,1|15,2360453,1|15,2362500,1|15,2362647,1|15,2362850,1|15,2376685,1|15,2383007,1|15,1728988,1|15,2523993,1|15,2549251,1|15,2637346,1|15,2637647,1|15,2836970,1|15,2949259,1|15,2809369,1|15,2953555,1|15,2997255,1|15,3027149,1|15,3021375,1|15,3058752,1|15,3057742,1|15,3085123,1|15,3104654,1|15,3136649,1|15,1825454,1|15,3142759,1|15,3159722,1|15,3168256,1|15,3167220,1|15,3168730,1|15,3172635,1|15,3121786,1|15,3171592,1|15,3184882,1|15,3204751,1|15,3211306,1|15,3211734,1|15,3213759,1|15,3216616,1|15,3226626,1|15,3247164,1|15,3212682,1|15,3251291,1|15,3251317,1|15,3251296,1|15,3091167,1|15,3257206,1|15,3253151,1|15,3208368,1|15,3239753,1|15,3268680,1|15,3270289,1|15,2941273,1|15,3273993,1|15,3279386,1|15,3289777,1|15,3254010,1|15,3294542,1|15,3215643,1|15,3322749,1|15,3320393,1|15,3342217,1|15,3361944,1|15,3392987,1|15,3420040,1|15,3471767,1|15,3481337,1|15,3481357,1|15,3455067,1|15,3468019,1|15,3519674,1|15,3636140,1|15,3575001,1|15,3676236,1|15,3678956,1|15,3702196,1|15,3699979,1|15,3759130,1|15,3774416,1|
Note the 15,xxxxxx,1 are in most of them. If I had to guess, the '15' notes it came from a forum, then the post number, and then the 1 means that you (Mariondil) ranked it up. Since you can't rank up your own post you wont find the example of 15-3717553 in your own cookie.
A second variant is in the data as well and I think it is the homebrews: 112130694,1975890,1 112130694,1972074,-1 are examples. In this case I am sure that the 1 or -1 is whether you ranked the item up or down. The second bit is the item's number, and the first bit is probably the category of the item (feat vs, magic items.) as a guess.
So the cookie seems to be a cache of everything YOU liked (or didn't like in the case of homebrew).
So the more active you are in forums and homebrews with the rating system creates this super cookie. As to WHY this cookie is needed, that is completely unclear. it isn't ALL ratings, its just your own.
Acutally it does help the moderators: there is a way to reproduce this. Each thumbs up is about 13 bytes. What a tester needs to do, is to login, and thumbs up over 200-400 posts, and the cookie should explode. It be faster on homebrew items, as they are much large payload. of about 20 bytes per like/dislike.
So maybe "unliking" forum posts and homebrews will reduce the size of the cookie?
Mairondil it looks like the problem is that you're too nice <3
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I give props when things are due. How are we going to track fake internet respect points if we stop?
How does one "Unlike" a ddb forum comment? Is there even a list I can refer to?
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Posts you've Liked have an X instead of up-arrow next to them. You can click that to un-like.
Edit: If you go to your Profile and mouseover the Thanks, it'll say how many you've received and given, so you'll know the scope of it. Then I guess look at your Posts, follow them to their threads, and see what other posts you've liked. I imagine starting with old before new will help keep things from being too "sudden" a change.
Edit2: Aww man and I just passed my 1337th post without noticing!
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