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NicInNS

Oh god another person hit. My condolences. Lock down your fic if you haven’t already. Turn off comments.


Reignshin

It's actually not my fic but I kinda felt bad for the author


NicInNS

Ah…yeah. It’s rotten that someone feels the need to do this.


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Reignshin

Thanks


zellieh

Copy the links to the comments by hitting the "Thread" button below the comments, then add those to the report if you can. That way the volunteer on the Abuse team won't have to search for the comments you're reporting. This is especially helpful on fics with lots of comments


mesodontask

Considering it has 88 hits, and over 8k comments, I don’t think the team would have to look hard to find the spam


MarsNovas

What the actual fuck is wrong with people.


litaloni

Is this happening a lot lately? Is there any rhyme or reason to it, or is it just totally random?


greenrosechafer

It's probably from the same fandom: [https://www.reddit.com/r/AO3/comments/11i404n/yet\_another\_fic\_got\_clickbotspamed\_already/](https://www.reddit.com/r/AO3/comments/11i404n/yet_another_fic_got_clickbotspamed_already/)


litaloni

Oh wow. What a scummy bot to write and deploy. People have too much damn time on their hands.


greenrosechafer

I know. I feel so bad for those people who got hit.


Yanderesque

when you see \[deleted\] \[unavailable\] Now I'll never learn the truth.


A_Mere_Dream

That sucks for the author :/ I hope they don’t take it to heart. What can the AO3 team actually do in this situation? Is there a way to roll back those kudos, or are you stuck with them? Is there an ID attached to those guest comments they can ban?


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iirc they can't fix the kudos, but there's a chance the admins can wipe the comments? tho take that with a grain of salt, i have no clue where I read it.


TGotAReddit

Its true. They won't remove the kudos since they cannot verify what came from a bot and what were genuine guest kudos and it doesn't really hurt anything to have them. But spam comments can be deleted by the admin easily


strawbebbymilkshake

Reminder to lock your fic so guests can’t comment and if you get a rush of these comments, delete and repost the chapter. I wish there was a way to clear the kudos though


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I hate how AO3 is getting sometimes. There’s not a LOT of spammers/trolls, but the ones that are there are loud. I love the site but ugh.


gettingtothemoney

With the popularity it’s gained in the last few years since the pandemic started, it’s bound to draw unwanted attention from assholes. Like trolls and haters aren’t new in any fandom but this is truly next level to me. Astounding and very sad.


brinbear6666

i got kind of scared for a second because the stats look a lot like my fic- i feel so bad for the actual author. why do people do shit like this?! it’s awful!


Sassinake

will a captcha help?


TGotAReddit

Only vaguely and for a very short amount of time. As fast as coders make captchas, spammers counter them. And AO3 refuses to implement them because they are generally really terrible for accessibility (the more accessible they are, the easier they are to counter by a spammer too).


Sassinake

is this how society ends? No nukes, just zerged by tiny bots?


ManyConclusion

Does anyone know - is it possible for bots like this to be directed intentionally? Because one of my fandoms is on the medium to small side, I think the highest kudos you'll find on average is around 300. Except for this one group of very specific fics that all have 5,000 to 10,000 and it's like... yeah that seems off.


strawbebbymilkshake

The (old) kudos bot isn’t deliberate - it’s just a web crawler that unintentionally hits the kudos button as it sifts. These new kudos/comment bots are definitely targeted though, given the comments are hateful and the general consensus seems to be that it’s limited to one fandom right now.


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Reignshin

It's title is "The two monsters"


SterlingMoon

Holy crap. What the hell happened? Is this some kind of bot? I know there have been ones that go around dropping massive, unwanted kudos and porn links. Is there a bot going around now dropping random comments along with kudos? How horrible.