July 2012
Underage Users (Current)
Confirmed as 18 or older – 250
Now 18, but underage when registered – 70 accounts, 57 actual users
Currently underage, deleted once – 92 accounts, 75 actual users
Inconclusive data found – 179 users
Users posting for minors – 1 users
Returning minors – 8 accounts, 6 actual users
Total users age checked - 568
Year to Date - 3580
Old Underage Users (by registration year)
2002 – 1 accounts, 1 users deleted, 0 users modified; total of 1 actual users
2003 - 2 accounts, 1 users deleted, 1 users modified; total of 2 actual users
2004 – 21 accounts, 9 users deleted, 4 users modified; total of 13 actual users
2005 – 106 accounts, 65 users deleted, 15 users modified; total of 80 actual users
2006 – 75 accounts, 49 users deleted, 16 users modified; total of 65 actual users
2007 – 91 accounts, 56 users deleted, 13 users modified; total of 69 actual users
2008 – 51 accounts, 31 users deleted, 16 users modified; total of 47 actual users
Grand total – 347 accounts, 212 users deleted, 65 users modified; total of 277 actual users
Year to Date – 1460 accounts, 899 users deleted, 287 users modified; total of 1186 actual users
Plagiarism
Deletions for plagiarism – 2, YTD - 21
Total instances where permissions given were provided when asked – 8, YTD - 39
Co – authors verified – 3, YTD - 19
Unsubstantiated claims of plagiarism – 0, YTD - 22
Added to the monitor list (for arrival to the archive) – 0, YTD - 2
Posting others' work – 1, YTD 7
Added to the Hall of Shame – 2, YTD 5
Trolls/Flamers/Spammers
4 instances resolved
Year to Date - 49
Other ToS Violations
47 issues resolved
Year to Date - 137
Orphan and Duplicate stories
Total orphan stories found and deleted – 0, YTD 103
Stories to merge – 10, YTD 65
Total stories left after merge – 5, YTD 32
Total stories looked at – 10, YTD 168
Shared Accounts and allowed alternate accounts
Allowed additional accout – 0, YTD - 1
Found shared accounts - 2, YTD - 28
Invalid and/or disposable email accounts
No issues found with email address – 0, YTD - 2
Users registered with false or disposable mail addresses (deleted when found) – 55, YTD - 202
Users deleted after not correcting bad email address – 58, YTD - 174
Users who corrected email address issue - 50, YTD - 117
Duplicate Users Processed
Users with no duplicates found - 0,YTD - 11
Users merged - 90, YTD - 517
Users where duplicate had no data, and was deleted - 258, YTD - 948
Total extra accounts deleted after processing - 395, YTD - 1756
Total accounts looked at - 743, YTD - 3244
Actual user amount - 348, YTD - 1476