A little rant against bots

[gothikmaus]

I'm almost ready to post a new fanfic, but first, I need to vent a little. I got two comments on my latest CSI ficlet the other day. At first, I was really happy: the Nick/Greg fandom is so small and quiet, I get only a handful of comments (when I get any!), so I cherish each and every one of them. But at the same time, I had a nagging suspicion: they were both left from guest accounts and seemed a bit weird. Today I received two more comments on the same ficlet, again from guest accounts and again, something was off. I mean, I love getting feedback, but I couldn't shake the feeling that they were bots. So I did a bit of research and it seems those comments were indeed submitted by bots. Which is really disheartening: I get such a morale boost any time I see an AO3 comment notification in my inbox, now bots are ruining this too?

This is why we can't have nice things.