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ranaloreOkay, I have occasionally had this bullshit happen over the past few years, but over yesterday and today, I have had three comments like this on the same story. One of them included a "nice story" at the beginning, but the meat of it, and the entirety of the other comments, is about how the story is "as old" as the commenter, or "was written the year [they were] born." This is petty fuckwittery at the best of times, but to get a spate of comments like this now, with everything going on in the world, in fandom, and frankly, in my life (on top of job-hunting, I am having another sinus event, and there has been one of the usual plumbing incidents, because of course there has), is beyond infuriating. It's clearly some kind of targeted, childish harassment, and I have been deleting the comments, because otherwise the temptation would be too great to come back with replies of "what makes you think I give a shit, infant, grow the hell up," and they don't deserve the attention. At the same time, if this is just the beginning of a wave of this nonsense, I don't think deleting it is really a good solution, but also AO3's harassment policy is contingent on the harassee first trying to resolve the situation, which. How? Giving them attention will only encourage the little shits. Anyway, I'm wondering if anyone else is experiencing this issue, or knows of anyone who is? Is this part of the stupidass anti "no one over the age of 25 should be in fandom" schtick?
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Date: 2020-06-15 05:01 pm (UTC)Clearly, I am not writing enough makeouts to keep me on an even emotional keel.
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Date: 2020-06-15 05:03 pm (UTC)This is the script if you want to try it, you'll need Tampermonkey to use it: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/3577-ao3-personal-hellban
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Date: 2020-06-15 05:33 pm (UTC)Of course, I've also discovered that some of the comments have the option to report them as "spam," which is telling. Some don't, and I'm responding to those to push back against the ageism, but I'm reporting the spam on the ones I can. If all these kids are doing is creating accounts so they can copypasta these kinds of harassing comments on older stories, they clearly didn't read the ToS (inadequate as they are at addressing certain issues).
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Date: 2020-06-15 05:40 pm (UTC)I suppose in their minds we should all be wearing mobcaps and sitting in rocking chairs by the fireside, or something. Utterly bizarre and infuriating.
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Date: 2020-06-15 07:11 pm (UTC)But I like destina's response for this sort of comment. And using the option to mark them as spam would be great--if they're legit, it's going to cause them grief.
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