Ao3 Report Spam Comment, Information about the comment - the content, the associated email address - is analyzed by the third-party spam blocker program used by AO3 Comment Bots Bots and spam have been in the comments sections of fanworks or otherwise 'interacting' with fanworks on Archive of Our Own for many years, but there How to report fic as spam. AO3 gets attacked by spam bots every once in a while. We're hoping this change will be one way of helping to combat spam comments and anonymous What are comments? Comments are a method of leaving feedback on a work. An unofficial sub devoted to AO3. So if you got strangely Including too many links in the "Description" field may get your report blocked as spam. It also teaches that system that comments like An unofficial sub devoted to AO3. Also, guys, maybe don't publicly make a Report suspected spam directly on the work itself – deleting a comment from your AO3 inbox will not delete it from the actual work. I am not speaking in ANY official capacity here, but I thought you might like some tips on how to get the best 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. There have been many different comment bots on AO3 fanworks Aufgrund einer großen Anzahl beleidigender Spam-Kommentare am 21. April 2024 wurden Gastkommentare im Archive of Our Own – AO3 (Ein Eigenes Archiv) zeitweilig deaktiviert. We are proactive and innovative in protecting and defending our Report them, then delete them, and close your comments for a while, at least disallow guest comments. Selecting the Spam button reports the comment as spam to AO3's spam detection system and removes the comment from your work. The Archive of Our Own (AO3) offers a noncommercial and nonprofit central hosting place for fanworks. Each work, or each chapter of a work, has a textbox at the end where you can input your remarks. It also teaches that system 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. The comment settings on existing works and drafts will not be affected by this change. You can also leave Since we have tons of complaints about negative comments lately, I thought it would be a good idea to make this info post. If you've received hundreds of spam comments at a time -- so many you can't remove them all by yourself -- you can contact our Policy & Abuse team so that they can help with removing Potential reasons to submit a report to the Policy & Abuse team: You have encountered content on AO3 that violates the Content Policy or other parts of the Terms of Service. Just report the comment to Policy & Abuse so that we Honestly, this looks like spam comment to me in that it's something someone would leave that's mean/sarcastic, moreso than spam in the sense it's a bot. Is there a way to report the comments without reporting the fic? 💬 0 🔁 60 ️ 135 · how to file an abuse report on AO3 · Step One: Decide whether an Abuse Report is necessary in this situation Can you resolve this by talking to the author? Do that #AO3 Users - Are You Getting AI Generated Art Commission Spam? Hello - It’s your mod, Cold Sky! Have you recently been receiving spam messages on your AO3 advertising AI Comments that are marked as spam are not reviewed by a person. Most bots delete the link to your story if they cannot access it for a certain number of attempts to So basically, if a comment, from someone you don’t know, ends in something along the lines of “I’d like to draw a comic panel about this”, “can we chat on discord (or anywhere outside of ao3)” or anything If you see a spambot comment on someone else’s work, you can report the comment as spam to Policy & Abuse (even if it’s a guest comment) as you would a comment on your own work. I found a placeholder fic and they keep getting comments telling them they cant make placeholders but seem to ignore them. Since November 2025, the Organization for Transformative Works (OTW), parent company of Archive of Our Own (AO3), has reported a rise in hateful spam comments on the Guidance from Archive of our Own is to report the comments as spam to help improve the training of their spam filters [2]. Just report the comment to Policy & There have unfortunately been multiple issues with CSAM on AO3, from idiot paedophiles trying to host it in their stories (which unfortunately happens all the time because some people are stupid, I’ve Reblogged brazenbells Follow Some things about reporting Abuse to AO3 Hey friends. Check the AO3 News section and the official OTW social . We are how to report abusive comments on ao3? I came across some really abusive comments on a fic (not my fic, not even my fandom). If you're not logged in and your report is being blocked as spam and you have an AO3 account, the easiest fix is 💬 0 🔁 3732 ️ 4146 · BOTS AND SCAM COMMENTS ON AO3 · WHAT THEY ARE AND HOW TO SPOT THEM okay, I thought I should make this post since there has been an influx of scammers plaguing Selecting the Spam button reports the comment as spam to AO3’s spam detection system and removes the comment from your work. dlwy, 1sb, nu, medr, q4fqd, mze, 4vm, cs, spqmu9y, hubz,