Comment on Open Doors celebrates the completion of 9 (and one more) archive imports in 2025!

  1. knight7272 Wed 28 Jan 2026 04:30PM UTC

    So what is this about Archive is preparing to deploy a powerful new IP-filtering engine that will block millions of automated bot requests every hour and what can I do to make sure I'm not caught in this massive filter?

    Cause someone is saying you need to put something into our powershell but i don't trust it

    Last Edited Wed 28 Jan 2026 04:46PM UTC

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    1. The_Highlands_Lady Wed 28 Jan 2026 05:05PM UTC

      That’s a scam thing going around. It’s not real, so don’t fuss about it. The troublemakers behind it are trying to get people to delete their fanfic documents, and are using the “IP wall” (which isnt even a real thing) to do so.

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      1. knight7272 Wed 28 Jan 2026 05:07PM UTC

        So it was dodgy

        Got to admit the thing was convincing to the point that I had opened my PowerShell, but put the code aside in a notepad file until I heard from the Archive and once I had seen your reply i closed it and deleted the thing in the notepad file and will never open my PowerShell to anyone ever

        So the code that the guest in the guest comment I saw would have deleted the fanfic files on my computer?

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        1. The_Highlands_Lady Wed 28 Jan 2026 05:18PM UTC

          It’s an attempt to add fics to AI scraping. If your documents are all deleted, but your work shows up in an AI generator… then *clearly* it was AI written and there’s nothing the original author can do to show that they wrote the fic originally… so whoops, no DMCA reports can be filed because clearly it was written by AI!

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            1. The_Highlands_Lady Wed 28 Jan 2026 05:37PM UTC

              Ao3’s subreddit is already chattering about it, but I’m working on drafting an email to the OTW about this too.

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              1. knight7272 Wed 28 Jan 2026 05:37PM UTC

                Good

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            3. The_Highlands_Lady Wed 28 Jan 2026 06:16PM UTC

              Here’s how it works:
              > Get-ChildItem -Path "$env:USERPROFILE\Documents*"

              this means "go to your documents folder and grab everything"

              -Exclude *.archiveofourown

              means "ignore types of things that have a file type .archiveofourown" (which is a nonesense statement: .archiveofourown isnt a file type)

              -Recurse | Remove-Item -Force

              means "take all those things and delete them and don't bother asking for permission cuz i said delete them NOW"

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              1. knight7272 Wed 28 Jan 2026 06:19PM UTC

                okay thank you for sharing that

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