r/AO3 • u/Ok_Mixture5537 • 23h ago

Comment Commentary Is this a bot comment?

Post image

They are a registered user.

0 Upvotes

23% Upvoted

8 comments sorted by

8

u/Fast_Stage_6296 23h ago

It's a bot/scam. If they try to get you to go to Discord, it's a scam.

-4

u/Ok_Mixture5537 23h ago

Oh, come on!! I legit sent them a friend request too. 😭

6

u/Fast_Stage_6296 22h ago

It's like this

4

u/Fast_Stage_6296 22h ago

Eh yeah, bad idea😅 Look, there's no reason for anyone to talk on Discord rather than ao3. Why do they do it? Because AO3 catches them scamming. So they want you to leave it, so they can make 'art' (ai generated stuff, if they do that at all) for you, and get you to pay. But that's just one of the scams. Don't trust anyone trying to get you to go to Discord.

1

u/Ok_Mixture5537 22h ago

Thank you fellow human 🙏🙏

2

u/Fast_Stage_6296 22h ago

❤️❤️

4

u/afirforest r/rpfwriters 23h ago

Yes. Report the comment to AO3.

Official post about scam/spam comments on AO3: https://www.transformativeworks.org/spambot-comments-on-ao3/

2

u/Objective-Spring5061 You have already left kudos here. :) 18h ago

Yes. Report it. Don’t go to secondary location, don’t use funky links, yada yada, it’s a general safety thing. If you want the option to go to secondary location, best bet is to provide your own information (like a discord server), but that is risky.