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otw_news_feed) wrote2025-09-23 04:12 pmIn the last year, AO3 has seen a rise in “art commission” spambot comments. The bots leaving these comments pretend to be artists who want to make comics or illustrations for a fan’s fic. After convincing their targets to contact them off AO3, they scam their targets into paying for that art. Fans have reported that after sending payment, they either received AI-generated art or nothing at all.
AO3 has been working on various methods that we hope will reduce the spam. However, these scammers are persistent and creative about circumventing our protections.
To avoid falling victim to one of these scams, the Policy & Abuse committee recommends:
This is just one example of how a scammer tries to lure the work creator onto a different platform where they can pressure the creator into commissioning art. These scammers use AI to generate realistic-sounding comments. The comments often contain generic praise or statements that could apply to any work, but sometimes they are extremely lengthy and/or specific. If the creator is suspicious and asks why the scammer wants to move the conversation off-site, they will typically claim that they aren’t a scammer and/or that they can explain things better in private.
However, unlike a regular user, a scammer will always do at least one of two things:
If you suspect that you’ve received a spam comment on your work, don’t reply and especially do not provide them with your contact information. Just report the comment to Policy & Abuse so that we can take care of it.
If you receive a scam comment from a guest, you can press the “Spam” button on the comment. This helps train our automated spam-checker to better detect this type of behavior.
If you encounter a scammer that has a registered account, or if you encounter a guest posting scam comments on someone else’s work, please report them to the Policy & Abuse committee. To do so:
Reporting in this fashion helps us auto-sort your report so that it can be handled as soon as a Policy & Abuse volunteer is available. To help us address reports about these types of bots as fast as possible, please only submit one report per account, and don’t include multiple accounts in the same report.
If you encounter a scam commenter on someone else’s work, you can let the work creator know the commenter is likely a bot and link them to this news post.
We also encourage you to share this post on social media and help spread the word about how to protect yourself from scammers and reduce spam on AO3.
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go_fug_yourself_feed) wrote2025-09-23 03:00 pmNaturally!
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cakewrecks_feed) wrote2025-09-23 01:00 pmYesterday we covered parentheses and quotation marks. Today, THE WORLD.
Or maybe just some extra apostrophes:
This Beth belongs to Congratutation.
The booties are anyone's guess.
I see lots of apostrophes where quotation marks should be, but I have to admit, this is the first time I've seen it the other way around:
I blame whatever madness drove the baker to add that L.
You might think periods would be easy to deal with, but if so, you're obviously a man with a death wish.
Or this baker:
I don't really know who St. David is, but I'm hoping against hope he's the patron saint of punctuation.
On the opposite end of the spectrum is the three period run, or if you want to get all technical about it, the ellipsis:
Because nothing conveys sincerity quite like trailing off mid...
With all these confusing options, you might be tempted to skip punctuation entirely, bakers. But that path has its own perils:
Yeah, way to go, Bob. I mean, that was soooo great, that thing you did. Scha.
My personal favorite, though, is the wild card mish-mosh of punctuation patter:
I dare you to do a dramatic reading of this cake.
And finally, the colon cake you've been waiting for:
Come back after we slice it for the semi-colons.
Thanks to Elizabeth C., Miriam A., Doreen L., Ariel F., Sarah C., Gernez, & Kim T. for the excuse to link to Victor Borge's phonetic punctuation.
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