August
Age Verification/Underagers (Current)
Confirmed as 18 or older – 179 Now 18, but underage when registered – 20 accounts, 19 actual users Currently underage, deleted once – 40 accounts, 39 actual users Inconclusive data found – 230 users Users posting for minors – 0 users Returning minors – 1 accounts, 1 actual users Total users age checked - 468 Year to Date - 3843
Old Underage Users (by registration year)
2002 – 4 accounts, 4 users deleted, 0 users modified; total of 4 actual users 2003 – 9 accounts, 8 users deleted, 0 users modified; total of 8 actual users 2004 – 1 accounts, 0 users deleted, 1 users modified; total of 1 actual users 2005 – 6 accounts, 5 users deleted, 1 users modified; total of 6 actual users 2006 – 25 accounts, 15 users deleted, 4 users modified; total of 19 actual users 2007 – 13 accounts, 9 users deleted, 1 users modified; total of 10 actual users 2008 – 6 accounts, 3 users deleted, 3 users modified; total of 6 actual users Grand total – 64 accounts, 44 users deleted, 10 users modified; total of 54 actual users Year to Date – 2166 accounts, 1559 users deleted, 279 users modified; total of 1836 actual users
Plagiarism
Stories deleted (co-author information not provided) – 0, YTD - 4 Stories deleted (permissions not provided) – 4, YTD – 12 Story adoption confirmed – 1, YTD 2 Co – authors verified – 1, YTD – 8 Permissions provided – 2, YTD 18 Unsubstantiated claims of plagiarism – 3, YTD – 9 Users deleted – 0, YTD - 8 Added to the monitor list (for arrival to the archive) – 0, YTD - 4 Posting for another/posting others' work – 1, YTD 6 Added to the Hall of Shame – 0, YTD 3
Trolls/Flamers/Spammers
users and content deleted (trolls) – 8, YTD 29 unfounded (trolls) – 0, YTD 2 flaming (instances found) – 2, YTD 9 spam registrations – 3, YTD 25
Other ToS Violations
22 violations resolved Year to Date – 300
The bulk of the violations this month was insufficient/improper story tags.
Orphan and Duplicate stories
Total orphan stories found and deleted – 0, YTD 0 Stories to merge – 7, YTD 71 Total stories left after merge – 2, YTD 33 Total stories looked at – 7, YTD 71
Shared Accounts and allowed alternate accounts
Allowed additional accout – 0, YTD - 1 Found and allowed shared/joint accounts - 2, YTD - 9
Invalid and/or disposable email accounts
No issues found with email address – 0, YTD - 0 Users registered with false or disposable mail addresses (deleted when found) – 0, YTD - 14 Users - deleted for non correction bad email address – 25, YTD - 732 Users - corrected email address issue - 2, YTD - 19
Duplicate Users Processed
Users with no duplicates found - 0,YTD - 1 Users merged - 22, YTD - 425 Users where duplicate had no data, and was deleted - 47, YTD - 740 Total extra accounts deleted after processing - 84, YTD - 1389 Total accounts looked at - 154, YTD - 2568 Actual user amount - 69, YTD – 1170