Comment on Update: Invitation requests remain disabled for the time being

  1. Diamond_Raven Tue 31 Oct 2017 03:15AM UTC

    Here's an example of a 'story' that was posted by an account operated by a spam-bot in the Star Wars fandom:

    WATCHONLINE]#!Denver.,.Broncos.,.VS.,.Kansas.,.City.,.Chiefs.,.LIVE.,.STREAM.,.Monday.,.Night.,.Football.,.Live.,.Stream.,.Online.,.GAME.,.WATCH.,.2017.,.ONLINE.,.TV.,.COVERAGE.,.[WATCHONLiNE].,.Denver.,.Broncos.,.vs.,.Kansas.,.City.,.Chiefs.,.Live.,.-watch-online-Denver-Broncos-vs-Kansas.,.City-

    The stories are generated by the spam-bots programming and it's just designed to repeat certain words over and over and over again. In this case, they appear to be trying to create actual links, but due to AO3s Rich Text editor format, the bots can't create actual hyper-links. As another form of spam, I've received some spam reviews which just consists fashion name-brands being repeated hundreds of times.

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