PSA: beware this scam: it's not AO3

[ride_4ever]

verushka70 will give you all the details about this comment scam being perpetrated by bots in fic comments on AO3. Do not react to the bot threats that falsely claim they are from AO3! Check out her very important warning in her DW post.

Please signal-boost this if you are so inclined.

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[amedia]

Thank you kindly for this important warning! I shall go and thank Verushka70 as well.

[ride_4ever]

<3 your icon, fellow Lodge member! "When all else fails, play dead!"

[amedia]

"When all else fails, play dead!" ♥

BION, I had a bad dream a few days ago in which the university decided to reinstate the Latin program (which TODS and I created from the ground up) - and assigned someone *else* to teach it. I went to the first class to observe and the guy was awful at it. He was having students give him Latin phrases commonly used in English and was writing them on the board in preparation for explaining them, so I raised my hand and said, "Quando omni flunkus moritati," which he dutifully began to write, and I said to myself, "heh heh heh."

[raine]

Yeah, I saw that on the AO3 Reddit a few weeks ago. The bots are hitting AO3 hard now, and the old safeguard of trusting an account is also being eradicated by people who feed the bots. ::sigh::

[ride_4ever]

Ditto on the sighing, plus a facepalm.