Ok second question (The first was answered in prompt of the week ;) )
I tied to make a collection, it would not let me select stories on A03. (Some were not mine, but the error stated they already existed on A03)
I tried to make a work, figuring I can add stories individually to the work. I do not know if it would let me add someone else's stuff.
I also tried to make something and add every one as co-authors. That did not work very well also. I'd like to make a singe group title to allow other people's work and that allows me to connect different stories to one idea.
Thanks
Yuu, would you like to repeat the instruction on how to add pictures on AO3? It was just answered elsewhere, but adding it here would make it much easier to find in the future. Just as you planned when you opened this thread :)
Is it 'MikkelRulez'?
My passwords are always random strings of chars and numbers.
Anyway, it's looking like someone is targeting authors who posted recently?
Is it 'MikkelRulez'?
My passwords are always random strings of chars and numbers.
Anyway, it's looking like someone is targeting authors who posted recently?
And ... two more kudos since my last reply. Maybe somebody really, really, really wants me to write another chapter?
I don't even know how you'd give extra kudos like that without at the same time increasing the hit count (which isn't increasing). At this point, that work has more kudos than hits.
I got two tries yesterday. What would anyone try to accomplish with this, I have no idea. All the fame and glory within out huge fandom?
It sounds like you got hit by the kudos bot.
I’ll check to see if I can find clear explanation but in short:
- this is a bot and not a person
- it’s a known problem
- ao3 doesn’t have a way to fix it (yet?)
- the only way to stop it is to lock your work to ‘logged in users only’
The password thing - that is also a known problem, I don’t remember if it was discovered what’s happening there. Changing your password to be safe won’t hurt.
Thanks Yuu! I was just wondering the same i.e. whether this is happening just to us or in other fandoms as well. I changed my password earlier, but got another try just now.
I suppose someone just finds it exhilarating to think how they are making everyone puzzled. Other than that, it seems kinda moot.
I locked it. If I unlock it in a few days, will the bot desist?
I think the way I'd fight the kudos bot is this: add a field to the work which is "kudos since last hit". Reset to 0 every time there's a hit; update every time there's a kudos. In general, you might have a few kudos added without a hit registered (because a registered user looks at it, then comes back, looks again, and adds kudos), but if you get more than a certain threshold, that means the bot is at work, so auto-lock the work to registered users only and send a notice to the account-holder.lwise,
Spam in your comments? First: don't follow the link! But do use the "Spam" button on the comment to report it. (No need to send in a separate support or abuse report! And please don't mark it as spam in your email, or your provider might start thinking all AO3 emails are spam.)
Your comment was great. I tossed off a little humorous story in honor of Mikkel's birthday, and here you found all these themes in it!
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