March
Age Verification/Underagers (Current)
Confirmed as 18 or older – 322 Now 18, but underage when registered – 43 accounts, 41 actual users Currently underage, deleted once – 83 accounts, 75 actual users Inconclusive data found – 257 users Users posting for minors – 0 users Returning minors – 8 accounts, 7 actual users Total users age checked - 702 Year to Date - 1683
Old Underage Users (by registration year)
2002 – 0 accounts, 0 users deleted, 0 users modified; total of 0 actual users 2003 – 3 accounts, 3 users deleted, 0 users modified; total of 3 actual users 2004 – 34 accounts, 27 users deleted, 3 users modified; total of 30 actual users 2005 – 125 accounts, 81 users deleted, 9 users modified; total of 90 actual users 2006 – 404 accounts, 339 users deleted, 9 users modified; total of 348 actual users 2007 – 83 accounts, 63 users deleted, 2 users modified; total of 65 actual users 2008 – 28 accounts, 25 users deleted, 0 users modified; total of 25 actual users Grand total – 677 accounts, 538 users deleted, 23 users modified; total of 561 actual users Year to Date – 1530 accounts, 1093 users deleted, 178 users modified; total of 1269 actual users
Plagiarism
Stories deleted (co-author information not provided) – 0, YTD - 2 Stories deleted (permissions not provided) – 0, YTD - 1 Co – authors verified – 1, YTD – 5 Permissions provided – 4, YTD 8 Unsubstantiated claims of plagiarism – 0, YTD – 0 Users deleted – 0, YTD - 2 Added to the monitor list (for arrival to the archive) – 0, YTD - 2 Posting for another/posting others' work – 0, YTD 0 Added to the Hall of Shame – 1, YTD 1
Trolls/Flamers/Spammers
users and content deleted (trolls) – 4, YTD 11 unfounded (trolls) – 0, YTD 1 flaming (story deleted) – 0, YTD 1 spam registrations – 0, YTD 21
Other ToS Violations
38 violations resolved Year to Date – 164
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 – 28, YTD 48 Total stories left after merge – 14, YTD 24 Total stories looked at – 28, YTD 48
Shared Accounts and allowed alternate accounts
Allowed additional accout – 0, YTD - 0 Found shared/joint accounts - 1, YTD - 2
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) – 4, YTD - 12 Users - deleted for non correction bad email address – 332, YTD - 498 Users - corrected email address issue - 1, YTD - 11
Duplicate Users Processed
Users with no duplicates found - 0,YTD - 1 Users merged - 128, YTD - 273 Users where duplicate had no data, and was deleted - 186, YTD - 442 Total extra accounts deleted after processing - 389, YTD - 875 Total accounts looked at - 709, YTD - 1610 Actual user amount - 314, YTD – 720