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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.

#ugh

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KILL HIM, YUGI! 

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Happy birthday to Honda Hiroto, holder of the nerd herd’s one shared brain cell and resident beauty on duty 😎 🌸🌸🍈

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happy birthday honda my friend honda from the tv

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Good job making it through the week everyone. Both to Egyptian teenage pharaohs everywhere as well as to the person reading this.

#fanart

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you are a 5'2" reincarnated ancient egyptian pharaoh (ATEM) eager to sample exciting modern new cuisines (AVOCADO TOAST AND MIMOSAS) but your engineering prodigy/F-15 pilot hobbyist boyfriend (KAIBA) is getting bored and restless waiting for all of your friends (RUNNING LATE, PROBABLY JOUNOUCHI'S FAULT) to arrive for your brunch reservation

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a kaiba, ofc

#fanart

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kaiba: the supernatural is all fake bullshit kaiba: *leans back in his seat, takes a long slurp of his smoothie* kaiba: illuminati is real

#THIS ONE TOO. DOMA IS SO ??!?!?????????????!!!!?

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the reason why im always talking about kaiba drinking protein smoothies is because a protein smoothie is an ideal kaiba snack (it’s efficient and nutritious, he can carry it around, he doesn’t even have to look up from his laptop) and he has to EAT and maintain muscle mass in his core and lower body if he wants to fly his jet without passing out at near-mach speeds over the pacific

#never forget.

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I'm entering the stage of "I'm working on some beast" where I think of nothing but rangers and shatter domes and i crave writing it at all moments and I definitely shirked work for an hour today to make tweaks and also I'm at this concert on my fifth glass of wine editing my Google doc like teehee what if :3 !! as you fuckin do

#i will just churn out chapters 12 and 13 back to back snd tjen take a leetle break and tjen ummmmm. endgame

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#no context

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Glass study turned fanart

#fanart

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#fanart #yes.... sickening!! (positive)

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The sun moves to keep you in it.

#prideshipping #DEVOURS THIS #fanart

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In void

#fanart

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Some beast will find you by name chapter 12 just hit 4k... Cooking with gas

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Little kuriboh!⭐⭐

#fanart