Comment on October 2025 Newsletter, Volume 205

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

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      yes! maybe u need to type in a specfic email

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

        hmm that might work

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

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          ill send a request to ao3 support

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

          User Windyjellyfish has told me this happened to him twice

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