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thinking about that post of people assuming ao3 has an algorithm and also about how bonkers persistent the view is that ao3 is social media lite. like with startling regularity I get comments saying something along the lines of "it's probably weird to comment on a fic this old--" no it isn't!!!! this is an archive I am literally just assuming you searched for a selection of specific tags or sorted by kudos or looked back on my pseud or any other number of completely normal ways to use an archive site ?? kill the tiktok ghost in your brain and comment on old stuff it's NOT weird

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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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So I just saw a post by a random personal blog that said “don’t follow me if we never even had a conversation before” and?????? Not to be rude but literally what the fuck??????????

I’ve had people (non-pornbots) try to strike conversation out of nowhere in my DMs recently, and now I’m wondering if they were doing that because they wanted to follow me and thought they needed to interact first. I feel compelled to say, just in case, that it’s totally okay to follow this blog (or my side blog, for that matter) even if we’ve never talked before.

Also, I’m legit confused. Is this how follow culture works right now? It was worded like it’s common sense but is that really a thing?

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Florence Pugh as Princess Irulan Corrino

DUNE: PART TWO (2024) - dir. Denis Villeneuve

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People having fun with Alastor's shadow, Part 1

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There are freshly independent possums scattered around my yard like fat little Easter eggs trotting through the grass and bricks at dusk.

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The fact that I did not get to hear Verge introduce themselves at Freya Titmittens is a fucking travesty

#midnight burger #verge midnight burger

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“Are you two DRUNK right now??”

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Staying with grandma for the week and all she eats is soup and custard

I hate both soup and custard and she won't let me buy my own food

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#personal #anti-soup posting

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This is me♡♡

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okay i need to know . rb once you finish voting

#I knew how records worked and I assumed that CDs were the same but smaller

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what did suzume tell tomuras ?

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Who's to say?

#lo speaks #yusada suzume #glory to the vindictive

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glory to the vindictive

What is the publici current opinion on suzume ? Also I'm really hoping nobody tryes to press her on the yakuza or use eri. Cause if they do it's their funeral

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The general public is pretty split on her. You have people who think she's awesome and inspirational, and people who think she's an upstart with a big head. After the whole debacle with All for One, there's more people than just Mic who are going to end up thinking she's working for the Yakuza.

#lo speaks #yusada suzume #glory to the vindictive