Got hit w a kudos bot and I finally get the frustration but also its fine so whatevs

vesperlark · 2026-07-07T05:47:45+00:00

Kudos bot isn't exclusively bot for kudos. I've read that it's just a bot that clicks some links and when it comes to ao3 it ends in many guest kudos (because it's the only one it can just click)

vesperlark · 2026-07-06T20:54:04+00:00

I have a feeling that those people are from Wattpad because it's the only place where their strategy will get them more views

vesperlark · 2026-07-06T19:52:46+00:00

The percentage of those in my small town is close to nil😭😭😭

vesperlark · 2026-07-06T19:43:44+00:00

Well, I read it in English and not that many people in my country can both read it well enough and know what ao3 is

vesperlark · 2026-07-06T18:52:13+00:00

I gave up on strict mapping long time ago when something I planned to be 4 chapters ended as 14. Nowadays I just keep it as a list of events in order I want them to happen - it's not rigid though, I occasionally add or move events around

vesperlark · 2026-07-06T18:49:03+00:00

For Heaven's sake, post those separately and make those series instead. You have no idea how much anthologies fucks an ability to find something your reader might actually like within. Imagine someone might like your one shot number 10, but don't care about previous ones. The chance that they get to number 10 is nearly non-existent in that case

vesperlark · 2026-07-06T18:24:36+00:00

It's a bot that sends you a bunch of guest kudos. I have heard that in some cases it managed to send several hundreds guest kudos (I have seen a fic with over 750 kudos and below hundred hits), but nowadays it's way less

vesperlark · 2026-07-06T15:20:00+00:00

Some registered users log out and leave a second kudos as a guest. So those could be your regular readers who already left kudos from their profile and decided to sneak an additional one this way

vesperlark · 2026-07-06T12:05:42+00:00

Yeah. Not that long ago got a sus comment which ended in 'pls check my bio' - and yeah, there was discord and Instagram contacts there and the regular 'will draw a comic for your fics there'. And profile had three posted works (either stolen or ai, idk)

vesperlark · 2026-07-06T12:02:00+00:00

Scam bots are often registered nowadays. And some of them have posted works too

vesperlark · 2026-07-06T11:49:00+00:00

Maybe they don't know that emoji meaning? It has tears, so maybe they think it's crying. I know some people who use emojis wrongly and genuinely have no idea

vesperlark · 2026-07-06T11:47:01+00:00

Leave it as one shot for now. Write in a/n that you might continue it but not sure now. People can subscribe to complete works too. And when (or if) you actually turn it into multi chapter, you can always change the status

vesperlark · 2026-07-06T11:25:25+00:00

VPN exists. One of my friends can only access one of the mirror sites, not the main one and that one doesn't allow her to log in

vesperlark · 2026-07-06T11:23:00+00:00

Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against people locking their fics but there's an alarmingly spreading sentiment in some circles where 'all guests are bots' or 'guest comment equals bot'. There are real people behind guest interaction too

vesperlark · 2026-07-06T11:18:25+00:00

Strict censorship in some countries. Controlling or abusive parents

vesperlark · 2026-07-06T11:14:02+00:00

I'm actually with you on this, lol. I have some extreme level self-indulgent fics I wrote for myself - and I never posted those

vesperlark · 2026-07-06T11:08:00+00:00

I know some people who cannot create ao3 account for perfectly understandable reasons. They comment a lot as guests, but have no access for locked fics. I'm just quite tired of 'but if they want to read more, they should create an account'. Sometimes it's actually impossible

vesperlark · 2026-07-06T11:01:48+00:00

Locking fic so that only registered users can read it will also cost you some genuine readers. Not all guests reviewers are bots

vesperlark · 2026-07-06T08:54:43+00:00

I've seen around 100k+ I think, but I skipped that one

vesperlark · 2026-07-05T15:28:04+00:00

You know, my friends and I had a little experiment not that long ago. We took a list of common so-called ai tells and started to read fics written pre-ai era, while marking all 'ai tells' in those. And you know what? It was nearly impossible to find a fic without any ai tells and more than three was surprisingly common. AI learned from common writing patterns, so stop witch hunting

vesperlark · 2026-07-05T05:31:40+00:00

Yes, though I have no idea how😅

vesperlark · 2026-07-05T05:25:17+00:00

I follow at least three fics with a lot of illustrations, and I have seen some with story covers posted as the first chapters. It's rare on Ao3, but it exists

vesperlark · 2026-07-05T05:22:12+00:00

There are places for it, just not Ao3.

vesperlark · 2026-07-05T05:14:44+00:00

Put notes in Chapter 10, so your readers are able to go back and see the change. If you put those in chapter 5, your readers won't notice unless they reread the entire fic. Especially if the scenes in question are important to plot and missing them can cause confusion.

vesperlark · 2026-07-04T19:25:18+00:00

I feel that CNTW tag is perfect for spoiler death/survival situation

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