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Wattpad has a community problem, so it’s killing DMs
The company claims that too few people were using it.
This also comes as Archive of Our Own (AO3), another popular platform for hosting fanfiction run by the Organization for Transformative Works (OTW), has temporarily disabled the ability for unregistered users to leave comments due to an “ influx of abusive spam.” OTW communications representative Claudia Rebaza tells The Verge that while the spam issues have been ongoing since 2022, the move was driven by users now receiving comments that had explicit images embedded. Trolls and perverts are hardly shy after all, and (in my own experience) fanfiction hosting sites tend to attract plenty of toxic degeneracy from users who don’t share the same appreciation for beautifully written tomes about Captain Kirk boning Spock.
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