Tsuki, I have a question about the harassment bot for Joongdok fics: if I report those comments on a fic, are the story/author effected at all? I want to report the harassment anonymously, but don't want to accidentally effect the author's ability to update their work or anything like that...
No, it shouldn't affect the author or lock the story or anything. Just explain in the details box that you saw a bunch of spam harassment comments. The report page automatically adds the link to the page you're reporting (and if you're not on that page at the time, you can manually add a link). You can also explain you're not the author but you saw the harassment and wanted to report it since it is breaking the rules. From what I've heard from others, AO3 will remove the comments and probably alert the author, but the author should not receive any consequences.
I've reported comments on my own works multiple times and AO3 has never touched my works at all. They only deal with the comments and/or users (if it is a registered user. Unfortunately, they can't do anything about unregistered/anonymous commenters other than deleting the comments).


















