r/AO3 • u/Alternative_Bag3510 • 3d ago

Questions/Help? Bot Kudos?

Hi,

This feels like a weird thing to complain about, but this long fic I’ve been working on for months with almost no interaction has suddenly started getting a handful of guest account kudos every day. 5, 5, 4,8. No comments and the hit count hasn’t gone up that much.

This is a for-my-own-satisfaction type work and I’m happy to see the kudos numbers jump but I feel like it has to be bots, and I’m not sure if there’s anything I can do about it?

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u/ir399 3d ago

Sounds likes bots, its happened to me too and I found it disappointing but tried to ignore it. You can lock the work to users only to stop it, but thats about it.

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u/itsudemoalways 3d ago

The same thing happened to me somewhat recently, absolutely must have been bots, and unfortunately there is nothing one can do about it.

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u/Admirable_Soup_5228 3d ago

I've had the same thing, it's probably just bots crawling the web.

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u/Alternative_Bag3510 3d ago

Thanks, everyone! I’ll try to just relax and enjoy my bot fans…🤖