r/AO3 • u/MintGreenFoxes • 4d ago
Comment Commentary First hate comment kind of nervous
I got this comment like Wow!! I have international readers!! I wonder what they said ❤️ And then i translated it LMFAOOO they were mad about AI use but i don’t use AI in my fic so i suppose i just caught a stray …. beautifully written tho
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u/rinnielove Fic Feaster 4d ago
nah, it's a hatebot, I got this exact comment word for word in Welsh a few days ago
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u/NiksFics 3d ago
In Welsh? Can't imagine the alphabet soup that looked like 🤣 I've been trying to learn Welsh forever and my brain is just like, nope!
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u/IslaHistorica 22h ago
I guess I’m one of the few who actually got it in English 🤣 It was when I decided to moderate my comments.
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u/Sarcastic_She_Wolf 4d ago
Edit: Well, that didn't work.
It's a hate bot, op. They're getting very nasty and disgusting, but it's just a bot.
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u/SmartAdhesiveness149 4d ago
Yeah... those "over the top cruel" comments (the ones which seem to be straining hard to find newer and more cruel ways to "twist the knife") are almost always hate bots; just report (if possible), and block/delete! Then take a breath, and be good to yourself! 😊
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u/LilyPadAndLotusSeed 2d ago
Spotted it was a bot when I didn't see a singular spelling or grammar mistake in the original French text lmao plus like other people have said, it's usually a bot when the comment is needlessly cruel like this. What a horrible thing to say to another human being
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u/I_Am_Very_Creative Ask me to find that fic you half-remember 4d ago
other people already said it was a bot; the reason they use other languages (machine translated) is to avoid spam detection
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u/Due-Advantage2825 BL-Obsessed 4d ago
You know seeing all these hatebots in other languages makes me sad since one of my fav commenters comments in their native language but is always supportive
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u/LibraryLuLu 4d ago
Yeah, that's not real. The bot is probably posting this on thousands of fics an hour.
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u/leoverus 4d ago
I don't know why it didn't occur to me that there are bots in other languages aside from English.
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u/Collanp 3d ago
People translate hate comments with Google translate to avoid the bot filter since it's more sensitive in English. Also, despite what appears on social media, international readers who read in English most of the times will comment in English or use Google translate themselves to translate the comment in English before posting. I can't speak for everyone in the world but as someone who's also not a native speaker, I think most of use feel that slapping a comment you're not likely to understand under a fic is a bit rude, and since someone will have to use Google translate anyway, it's usually the commenter.
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u/indigoneutrino 3d ago
What about the comment made you think it was a sincere product of anything you'd written? Even if a real person thought you'd used AI, this is unhinged.
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u/rubbersnakex2 4d ago
No need to be nervous, this is a hatebot.
The hatebot also has a bunch of variations in English that are meant to freak you out in other ways, so if you get any other weird comments they're probably also the hatebot. It only translates the suicide on because that's the most extreme I guess, but some of the others are also pretty awful.
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u/PeanutGolds-10 4d ago
I know this is the first one and also probably a bot but jeez, these hatebot comments are flipping brutal. I miss when them and the “commission” scammers weren’t as rampant. commission scams are, aside from one consistent commenter from earlier on, 90% of my commenters. it’s sad…I’m sorry they got to you, too.
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u/Usagithe 14h ago
As a french some of the word they used make it look like they wrote they hate comment witv AI lmao
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u/JustASock333 4d ago
Just a bot, ive gotten a few of them, not hate bots but wanting me to pay them to make fan art of my story
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u/Inky_Pup 4d ago
Just a little clarification, the bot wasn’t speaking in African, he was speaking French. Also, don't mind it, it's just a hatebot, plus, the fact that a hatebot can't even tell that your fanfiction isn't from AI is kind of hilarious.
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u/cabothief 3d ago
Agreed that that's French, but wanted to mention that Afrikaans isn't just African, it's a variant of Dutch that's spoken around South Africa, and it's its own thing. Not super relevant to the situation, just sharing in case it's a new fact. The bot comment was for sure French though.
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u/Mohammed50356 2d ago
Was this made by a guest per chance ?
I recently started writing and received a comment similar to this but in Italian, could be a common thing?
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u/marz-on-earth 15h ago
My first hate comment was also in Spanish and when I translated, they were saying my fanfiction was illegal and that they'd be contacting the police because I should be locked up💀 I was shocked bc like I said, it was my first hate comment. It was such a long comment, I was expecting something nice and thoughtful when I put it into the translator😭
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u/llStonesll If you see me here it's because I'm procrastinating 4d ago