Comment on October 2025 Newsletter, Volume 205

1. Forested_Woodlands Fri 14 Nov 2025 03:13AM UTC

   

   hey i had that too!

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2. 1. knight7272 Fri 14 Nov 2025 05:31AM UTC

      

      when?

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   2. 1. Forested_Woodlands Fri 14 Nov 2025 05:34AM UTC

         

         4 days ago i think. i think someones going on ao3 news posts and just typing in users who comment on them to rewuest password changes just to like harrass them or smth.

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      2. 1. knight7272 Fri 14 Nov 2025 05:45AM UTC

            

            yeah A03 should ideally have a way to prevent someone from doing that if possible

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         2. 1. Forested_Woodlands Fri 14 Nov 2025 05:51AM UTC

               

               yes! maybe u need to type in a specfic email

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            2. 1. knight7272 Fri 14 Nov 2025 06:04AM UTC

                  

                  hmm that might work

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               2. 1. Forested_Woodlands Fri 14 Nov 2025 06:06AM UTC

                     

                     ill send a request to ao3 support

                     Last Edited Fri 14 Nov 2025 06:06AM UTC

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                  2. 1. knight7272 Fri 14 Nov 2025 06:11AM UTC

                        

                        good idea

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               3. MalcontentCatboy Fri 14 Nov 2025 12:55PM UTC

                  

                  People forget their emails, too. I don't think there's really a way to stop this kind of thing.

                  A trick some services use is the secret question. However, people sometimes get their own secret questions wrong, and many of them aren't that hard to guess, either.

                  You are probably right about someone doing this to people commenting on news articles. It hasn't happened to me, but if it happened to two people commenting on news articles in quick succession, that's a pattern. If that's the case, there's even less reason to worry because it's probably not someone legitimately trying to get into your account, just someone being mildly annoying.

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               4. 1. knight7272 Fri 14 Nov 2025 01:37PM UTC

                     

                     User Windyjellyfish has told me this happened to him twice

                     Last Edited Fri 14 Nov 2025 01:37PM UTC

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