guy sitting in front of me in class was vandalizing wikipedia and i kept reverting his edits as soon as he made them and he couldn’t figure out why it was happening
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About the AO3 "No Guest Comments for a while" warning
If you're not following any of AO3's social media accounts you might be in the dark as to what kind of "spam comments" have engendered this banner at the top of the site:
These spam comments have been posted about a great deal on the AO3 subreddit for the past couple of days. Initially they comprised a bunch of guest (logged out users) bot comments that insulted authors by suggesting they were using AI and not writing their own fics. Some examples, from the subreddit:
But it then escalated to outright graphic porn images and gifs being posted in comments, again by logged out 'Guest' accounts. Obviously, I'm not going to give examples of those, but between these two bot infestations, AO3 has clearly decided to act and has temporarily closed the ability to post comments for users who are not logged in with an AO3 account.
Unfortunately, this means that genuine readers who don't have an AO3 account won't be able to leave comments on fics that they enjoy.
If you are a genuine reader who doesn't yet have an AO3 account, I strongly suggest getting yourself on the waiting list for one. More and more AO3 authors are now locking their fics down to registered users only - either due to these bot comments or concerns about AI scraping their work - which means you're probably missing out on a lot of great stuff.
Hopefully guest commenting will be enabled again at some point soon, but I suggest not waiting until then. Get yourself on that list.
Wait times are going to be longer than usual at the moment, due to the current Wattpad purge [info on Fanlore | Wattpad subreddit thread], but if you're in line, then your invite will come through eventually.
Update: There's now a Megathread about this on the AO3 subreddit.
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Maglor | Maitimo and the little horse. I always wanted to draw Maglor with short hair, now I need to draw him bald, I think it will be cool))
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My last minute addition to the ★ Star Wars Day! ★
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happy 20th anniversary to this scene and this scene only
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short hair luthien 🪻
commissions | shop | ig | twt
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“the other day” could mean anything with me. literally yesterday. or a week ago. Seven years past.
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Nogrod was one of two Dwarven cities in the Ered Luin, the other being Belegost, that prospered during the First Age. Nogrod lay near Mount Dolmed. It was home to the Dwarves of Nogrod. And it was also the home to the great Dwarven smiths Gamil Zirak and Telchar...
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hfishfjsh I forgot to hand in an important document and now I'm sliiiightly panicking because the extended deadline is the end of next month (which seems like a lot but knowing the speed of german bureaucracy it's like the day after tomorrow AT BEST) and just like fuck
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turkish spindle gang make some noise (imagine having to wind your singles off your spindle before you can start plying, couldn't be us)
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