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PSA to all writers, I am told that there’s a new influx of spam bots on AO3 (and also other fanfic posting platforms) where authors get comments from guest users or empty accounts and these comments express their interest in “making comics” from their fics. before proceeding to invite authors to “discuss with them over discord”.

apparently that is 95% a scam.

the easiest way to spot a scam bot is that nowhere in their comment will they mention anything specific about your works. there will be no mention of the characters’ names, no mention of any specific scene from your work. instead their comments will be something vague about how they “see potential” in your work and how they “would like to draw a comic panel about your work” and then they ask to “discuss this over on discord”

they have been mass leaving the exact same copied and pasted comment on various authors’ works at random. but they will make you commission/pay for “the comics” of your own fics (and you probably can guess where this is going, yes, you’ll never get your comics).

but they don’t just scam you into giving them money. I’m also told these bots are trying to hack your password, personal data, credit card information, etc.

report these types of comments then delete them when/if you get them.

it’s disgusting these pathetic losers are doing this, but also, scammers keeping coming up with a new way to scam people is sadly nothing new. stay safe, y’all

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I know a company that does both these things and no surprise, when you shop there, the employees are always miserable and agitated.You should kill your managers in such situations imo. The only reason I receive treatment slightly above this is i'm lucky enough to have managers who are also bothered by these business practices. The water one is especially bad if you have heat intolerance, I was so sick regularly before I switched to a department with more leniency regarding water.

Depending on where you live these things may violate labor laws though so if you're in the same situation look into it. However in my experience any labor law violations happen without consequence regardless

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It’s so crazy that suicide prevention is just people going awwww don’t!! Awwww come on noooooooooo stopppppp

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It’s so crazy that suicide prevention is just people going awwww don’t!! Awwww come on noooooooooo stopppppp

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a non-selective plan for the resurgence of fic commissions

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Like to charge reblog to cast

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"Why can't the freaks on AO3 just go and make a site for all the gross stuff and leave AO3 alone."

Because AO3 is that site. Because AO3 was that site long before you decided AO3 was better than the sites you bullied us off of before, and I can promise you if someone somehow comes up with a fanfic site you like better specifically for the 'gross stuff' you'll try to bully us off that too so you can benefit from it.

AO3's specific core purpose is to preserve fanfiction, yes, but it was also instigated as a host site for the fanfiction that kept getting yeeted off other platforms like Wattpad. Its designed to preserve all fanfiction, not just the fanfiction you, personally, think is 'allowed' to be written.

AO3 is the site for all the gross stuff the freaks make. We've been there just as long as you. We've been funding it just as long as you have. AO3 has specifically said you have a place here. The timeline was literally:

Wattpad/FF.net/LiveJournal purge fanfics > AO3 is born > The people who's fics got purged moved over to AO3 > AO3 gains popularity as the best functioning site > The people who pushed for the fics to be purged off Wattpad move to AO3 > The same people try to push for AO3 to purge fics.

AO3's source coding is open-access. You go make a polished, strict, rigid site where nothing 'icky' is allowed. You go make a site where you can control what is hosted. We already have our space.

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I'm a fact-checker. This is fact-checked. No point in going down the rabbit hole to discover nothing. If you only remember one thing from this post:

Your moral superiority complex shouldn't be fed at the alter of misinformation.

Fandom, at its core, especially it's queer representations, members, and art, are already a deadly offense in the mainstream. Existing as a queer person is under fire. Find a new priority, better than policing a space that's already threatened based on falsehoods.

roach-works was a notorious underage + incest + rape fanfic writer and all of those are still up for everyone to read on their ao3

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fuck em up gang

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Visa and Mastercard may be getting a lot of calls about their adult content policies, but I just called in to PayPal and not only was there no wait, the customer service rep I got had never had one of these calls before (they were very nice about it.)

Don't overlook the online processors - even more than Visa and Mastercard they are the ones pressuring online retailers. PayPal is the one that's been pressuring Patreon over the last year or so.

I've had no luck reaching Stripe, all of the numbers people have dug up ring through as disconnected.

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If ANY of yall EVER do this shit to me, im deleting every single fic out of spite.

If I ever catch one of yall doing this to another author and I know youre a follower of my work I will block you personally on every platform

None of yall are the fic police. I DESPISE genai. I think its an insult to art, humanity, and the planet itself. But aint not a single fucking person here qualified to pick apart a strangers fic looking for a gotcha moment to make yourselves feel superior. If you think something is ai you can ask the author (most are proud of the ai use and will just tell you straight up) if they say yes you have your answer and can warn people. If they say no and you dont believe them you block and quietly keep it between you and maybe a close group of friends. Spreading misinformation is DANGEROUS. And NONE of you doing this shit are anywhere near qualified to do it.

THIS GOES DOUBLY FOR ARTISTS.

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I'm dead 💀

tgis is so fucking funny to me. they accidentally Rock Lee'd a retired racehorse

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Always the writer, never the reader.

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🤣

using "what were YOU doing at the devils sacrament" to mean "yeah i made an embarrassing reference but you understood it which is also embarrassing" is very funny to me

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We have this interesting situation where we basically no longer have privacy nor the expectation of privacy, but we also don't have community or meaningful connection with others, so we're all simultaneously both completely exposed and absolutely alone, and please understand that when I say this situation is "interesting", what I in fact mean is that it's "nightmarish and I wish I could wake up"