Comment Bonus? More like a loophole for karma and streak farming? xD
I think a lot of authors here on AFF have noticed a decline in comments they get for a fic. I happen to be one of those authors and as a result, quite a handy of my fics have the "comment bonus" thing because of low comment to word count ratio.
I know it was implemented to encourage commenting on fics until I realized how it's being abused as a loophole for karma farming? I received a comment notification which I will paraphrase as: "Only commenting because of the comment bonus". The comment was deleted right after but I got the notification nonetheless and the user ID of the person who left it. It was an obvious troll account because the name was kinda taking a jab at a very sensitive topic in the kpop community.
Out of curiosity, I looked at the "discover" page which is basically fics like mine with "comment bonus" on it. Just scrolling through a few fics, I notice people spamming the fics with the same nonsensical or useless emoji comment repeatedly, with just seconds of interval between the comments. Some of the authors even think its genuine and don't understand the cause of spam ;____;
tl;dr *sigh* I don't mind people who farm for karma or to continue their streak or whatever but please at least be polite about it? And yes, I know that there is an opt only for subscribers to comment on a fic, but not all authors set their fics to "subscribers only" and some just don't want to.
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