Warning to writers - new bot trend
Dear all,
A new trend is starting to appear in AO3 comments: impersonation of known writers in certain fandoms to write extremely mean comments.
The username is going to appear as such:
This, for example, is a member of Good Omens After Dark, who we know and love and can absolutely ENSURE would never post something as nasty as the bot I'm showing here has posted. That, as it was brought to our attention, made it very obvious to us that something new had appeared on AO3.
All the known writers you all respect and love have a registered account on AO3: please consider this fact when you see such a comment by an account whose name you might recognise.
No self-respecting writer posting on AO3 would post the nasty things that we're seeing floating around posted by those new types of bots
And they would certainly not go through the trouble of leaving that comment with their actual account name as a Guest name.
Report and block, and please stay safe. Do not engage with those accounts, they are entirely meant to discourage you and to make you delete your works.
If you do believe that you are being treated very unfairly by a GOAD member however, never hesitate to report it to the GOAD mods, as that is not the type of behaviour that we accept from our members.
Signed,
The Mod Team
