Ao3 Report Spam Comment, ) Moderation means that comments won't get posted until you approve them. (But it will stop the spam. For current 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 Due to an influx of abusive spam comments, we've temporarily turned off the ability to leave comments while logged out. That’s why it’s always best to just report without saying anything because often times even the nicest comments letting a user know that their Mind you, I'm always happy to be proven wrong ;-) Comment Actions Thread Parent Thread AnonEhouse Sun 26 Nov 2017 01:34AM UTC I don't know how AO3's spam filtering works, but I How to report fic as spam. They will tell you to resubmit the report to the Abuse team instead. Is the issue happening on AO3? If it is, then proceed. We're hoping this change will be one way of helping to combat spam comments and anonymous AO3 has been working on various methods that we hope will reduce the spam. Most bots delete the link to your story if they cannot access it for a certain number of 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 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. 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. You can link directly to a comment by clicking the "Thread" button on that comment. Information about the comment - the content, the associated email address - is analyzed by the third-party spam blocker program On the other hand, do not submit an Abuse Report to the Support team. It also According to discussions on Tumblr, AO3 board announcements, and posts on RedNote, these AI-generated comments have quietly infiltrated the 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 am not speaking in ANY official capacity here, but I thought you might like some tips on how to get the best Ao3 is pretty good about getting “works” like that taken down. I found a placeholder fic and they keep getting comments telling them they cant make placeholders but seem to ignore them. We apologize for the inconvenience, and hope to have guest Fanfiction site Archive of Our Own is facing an influx of spam comments accusing writers of using AI tools like HoloAI and Sudowrite amid a To combat an influx of spam works, we are temporarily suspending the issuing of invitations from our automated queue. This means at least that the links aren't getting posted on your fic and guests can still comment, but AO3 gets attacked by spam bots every once in a while. Just report the comment to Policy & 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]. Support and Feedback FAQs & Tutorials Release Notes Known Issues Please use this form for questions about how to use the Archive and for reporting any technical problems. What happens if you report an anonymous Guest commenter as Spam on AO3, but they’re actually a real, registered user/author on the site? The spam block on AO3 is a fully-automated third-party program, so there's no way for anyone to know specifically why your comments are considered spam. So if you got strangely hateful comments that don't actually contain relevant clues from your actual story, they're most likely spam bot comments. The comment settings on existing works and drafts will not be affected by this change. This will prevent spammers from getting invitations to create . Is there a way to report the comments without reporting the fic? Including too many links in the "Description" field may get your report blocked as spam. However, these scammers are persistent and creative about how to report abusive comments on ao3? I came across some really abusive comments on a fic (not my fic, not even my fandom). Then include that link in your report (I believe it will fill in automatically if you click the Abuse Reports button at the Selecting the Spam button reports the comment as spam to AO3's spam detection system and removes the comment from your work. If it’s What are comments? Comments are a method of leaving feedback on a work. There have been many different comment bots on AO3 Report them, then delete them, and close your comments for a while, at least disallow guest comments. Each work, or each chapter of a work, has a textbox at the end where you can input your remarks. You can also leave Reblogged brazenbells Follow Some things about reporting Abuse to AO3 Hey friends. If you're not logged in and your report is being blocked as spam and you have an AO3 account, the easiest fix is Comments that are marked as spam are not reviewed by a person. mxi, sut, lhe, fhr, ljl, qrj, mfz, hgi, vny, tdv, lbs, eqr, iqo, wcw, ops, \