First things first, commenting isn’t rocket science. Most of us have left comments on some piece of fanwork at one point or another, and when I say “left comments”, I don’t just mean typing a remark into the AO3 comment box and hitting post, or sending the author a message on Tumblr or Twitter. I also mean the tags you put in reblogs. The tweets you make about it. Anything that’s on some social, publicly accessible platform.

With that in mind, I respectfully ask all commenters to consider the following before typing and posting whatever it is you want to say.

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