The above examples have been provided with the authors’ permission to demonstrate what these look like.
Basic rundown:
They are all 3 sentences long
Perfect grammar, capitalization, and punctuation
Like absolutely flawless English teacher-style writing with only a single exclamation mark, ever
No mentions whatsoever of character names, settings, situations, or anything that could be tied to the story
The usernames may be identical to people who exist on ao3, but the name is not clickable, and no profile is associated with it EXCEPT when you directly search for that name. What this means: the comments come from an unregistered (not logged in) reader, bots scrape the site for real usernames, attach that to the comment, and post
Please spread the word about this so authors can filter comments and report them accordingly
There has been some speculation about why this is happening at all, and the best guess is that this is a feature that AI-training story-scraping tools are implementing to try and make their browsing traffic look legitimate
The rumour of a ritual that helps resonance to remain in extracted blood turns out to be true. What would this mean to the future of our blood supply? Ventrue Primogen Risa’s childe was a prodigal, but her grandchilde fortunately is a lot more promising, making a name for himself in the real estate market. For the first time in 400 years, shaved brows are back! Would you rock the look seen on Queen Elizabeth I and the Mona Lisa?
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Three Vampire the Masquerade mock magazine I made, detailing some piping hot stuff happening in the chronicle 👀
Disgust has absolutely no ethical weight. If you are basing your ethical positions on the emotion of disgust you should stop, it is entirely unjustified and leads to a huge amount of harm.
Word for today: wisdom of repugnance
The logical fallacy that because something disgusts you it must be bad
The wisdom of repugnance or “appeal to disgust”, also known informally as the yuck factor, is the belief that an intuitive (or “deep-seated”) negative response to some thing, idea, or practice should be interpreted as evidence for the intrinsically harmful or evil character of that thing. Furthermore, it refers to the notion that wisdom may manifest itself in feelings of disgust towards anything which lacks goodness or wisdom, though the feelings or the reasoning of such ‘wisdom’ may not be immediately explicable through reason.
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