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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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Inky winky 🎨

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Relationship chart for Sans

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aren't you tired of being nice? don't you just wanna go apeshit?

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but if I'M a traumatized kid and YOU'RE a traumatized kid... who's playing the game!?

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Me and @altariartx decided to do a simple doodle together to celebrate Royaul's first anniversary! So we drew our favorite sillies!

Royaul belongs to Esino Cross belongs to Jakei Dust belongs to Ask-dusttale LV20 Cross belongs to withtheworms

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When you finally start to process everything you did as a bitchass flower

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An illustration for the fanbook with the theme of Grillster.I'm really glad to be invited to participate in this.

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Blue!

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you deployed the dog

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gamer sans bath water now on sale

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My Valentines Day YCHs are now open! There’s a new Spicy Couple one this year that I’m really excited about, and the usual sfw Candy Heart one is also open!

Reblogs are super appreciated, especially now that I’ve lost my main twitter account! 🥲

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(click for better quality hopefully <//3)

but HERE IT IS!!!

SCREW WHAT ANYONE SAYS.

YOU ARE VALID. YOU ARE HUMAN.

and also

HAPPY NEW YEARS EVERYONE!!!

I've only been on here for 3 months, and wow. So much happened. just because i joined Tumblr, im so grateful to everyone that i've met/interacted with, and even those who've interacted with me. i love you all very much <3

here's to a happy 2024!!! may this year treat us well~!!!<333

also had the idea:

queer mascots.

and also this. have fun with it :)

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When Twins think the same stuff uwu

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with the way you draw i jus wanna give swap sans a kiss on the forehead I LVOE THEM S MMM I LOVE HOW YOU DRAW ALL OF THE MAWHAWHAWD AAAAAWW AW WDAS

This post is Swap Sans Approved

I think he manages to be the dorkiest goofy Sans, and I like that...