Report and infraction statistics 2011
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Sorry for the delay (again).
I wanted to post more things quite some time ago, but other stuff was coming into my way.
First, because the last plot was not very easy, another representation (hopefully easier):
Birdjaguar also wrote an explanation for it:
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Now, some answers to the asked questions (the same stuff will in most cases appear again in the text at the end, because I'm too lazy to cut it out there).
We had 735 bot related posts, from which 146 were at least reported twice (in total 435 multiple reports).
It's way less for posts by normal users. We received 6557 reports of posts from regular users, 369 posts were reported at least twice (in total 499 reports were related to already existing reports).
This comes together with the highest amount of reports per post, which was in that case 11 reports and no action on that post. Okay, all 11 reports were done by the same user (and 10 of these within 5 minutes).
We infracted 2167 posts, 1482 (68%) were reported, 685 not (32%).
Compared to the total amount of reports (6557) this seems low, but like already mentioned, not all reports are related to problematic material, and even if, a moderator might decide to infract a single post with more points instead of several infractions with lower points.
They did, but the amount of 79 reversed infractions in more than 2000 is pretty low.
Now the main text (since it directly addresses this):
Infractions per forum
2167 infractions for regular users were handed out in 52 different forums, most were again issued in the Off Topic area (1215 infractions or 56,07%), followed by Civ5 General Discussion with 426 infractions (19,66%). All other forums were well below 10%, with the Recycle Bin as forum with the next most infractions (93 infractions or 4,29%).
The number of infractions for the top 2 forums correlate with the number of reports for these forums (51% and 19%, respectively).
130 infractions were not issued in a forum, but on the users profile.
From all of these infractions 79 were reversed.
From the 2167 infracted posts, 1482 (68%) were reported, 685 not (32%).
Table of every forum with 1%+:
The threads with the most infractions (table of 10+ see below) come also out of these forums. 6 of these 11 threads are closed.
The obvious outlier is the Civ5 rants thread, which accumulated nearly twice as much infractions as every other thread. It's an outlier because it's intentionally used for rants, which in this case just accumulate more. To be fair: If it was a regular thread, it would have been closed long time ago.
All other threads are about obviously controversial topics, which is not very surprising.
Most infracted thread outside of Civ5 GD and OT was the topic "RFC Europe playtesting feedback thread" in the RFCE subforum with 8 infractions (IIRC triggered by a single troll) and the thread "Annoying trolls in here" in SF with 7 infractions, followed by The 'Best' Ancient General in World History and Funny Pics XXII (both 6 infractions).
About the reports
1091 regular users were reported, 622 of them only once, 160 twice (does not include bots). This resulted in total 7292 reports (which include 735 related to bots). From the 735 bot reports 146 were reported at least twice (in total 435 reports were related to existing bot reports).
From the remaining 6557 reports for regular users, 369 posts were reported at least twice (in total 499 reports were related to already existing reports).
The most reported posts were reported 11 times (4 posts in total). In one case a user was not satisfied with the mod reaction and decided to report a single post 10 times within 5 minutes, 1 was related to these image spammer/troll who posted with large images, the two other were obvious advertisement threads.
"Funnily" that rape porn bot which appeared once is not the most reported item (probably due to fast moderator reactions and multiple threads).
The user which was reported the most times accumulated 87 reports, followed by two users with 75 and 73 reported posts. The posts from 28 people were reported at least 20 times. 23 of these people do mainly frequent the OT forums, 3 the Civ5 forums. 49 other people were reported between 10 and 19 times.
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Anything else anyone might be interested in?
I wanted to post more things quite some time ago, but other stuff was coming into my way.
First, because the last plot was not very easy, another representation (hopefully easier):
Spoiler :
Birdjaguar also wrote an explanation for it:
Birdjaguar said:
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Now, some answers to the asked questions (the same stuff will in most cases appear again in the text at the end, because I'm too lazy to cut it out there).
We had 735 bot related posts, from which 146 were at least reported twice (in total 435 multiple reports).
It's way less for posts by normal users. We received 6557 reports of posts from regular users, 369 posts were reported at least twice (in total 499 reports were related to already existing reports).
What was the most reported post that wasn't infracted? E.g. if a post had 10 reports but you didn't infract. What post was that? I'm assuming that isn't PDMA since, well, there was no action
This comes together with the highest amount of reports per post, which was in that case 11 reports and no action on that post. Okay, all 11 reports were done by the same user (and 10 of these within 5 minutes).
We infracted 2167 posts, 1482 (68%) were reported, 685 not (32%).
Compared to the total amount of reports (6557) this seems low, but like already mentioned, not all reports are related to problematic material, and even if, a moderator might decide to infract a single post with more points instead of several infractions with lower points.
They did, but the amount of 79 reversed infractions in more than 2000 is pretty low.
Now the main text (since it directly addresses this):
Infractions per forum
2167 infractions for regular users were handed out in 52 different forums, most were again issued in the Off Topic area (1215 infractions or 56,07%), followed by Civ5 General Discussion with 426 infractions (19,66%). All other forums were well below 10%, with the Recycle Bin as forum with the next most infractions (93 infractions or 4,29%).
The number of infractions for the top 2 forums correlate with the number of reports for these forums (51% and 19%, respectively).
130 infractions were not issued in a forum, but on the users profile.
From all of these infractions 79 were reversed.
From the 2167 infracted posts, 1482 (68%) were reported, 685 not (32%).
Table of every forum with 1%+:
The threads with the most infractions (table of 10+ see below) come also out of these forums. 6 of these 11 threads are closed.
The obvious outlier is the Civ5 rants thread, which accumulated nearly twice as much infractions as every other thread. It's an outlier because it's intentionally used for rants, which in this case just accumulate more. To be fair: If it was a regular thread, it would have been closed long time ago.
All other threads are about obviously controversial topics, which is not very surprising.
Spoiler :
Most infracted thread outside of Civ5 GD and OT was the topic "RFC Europe playtesting feedback thread" in the RFCE subforum with 8 infractions (IIRC triggered by a single troll) and the thread "Annoying trolls in here" in SF with 7 infractions, followed by The 'Best' Ancient General in World History and Funny Pics XXII (both 6 infractions).
About the reports
1091 regular users were reported, 622 of them only once, 160 twice (does not include bots). This resulted in total 7292 reports (which include 735 related to bots). From the 735 bot reports 146 were reported at least twice (in total 435 reports were related to existing bot reports).
From the remaining 6557 reports for regular users, 369 posts were reported at least twice (in total 499 reports were related to already existing reports).
The most reported posts were reported 11 times (4 posts in total). In one case a user was not satisfied with the mod reaction and decided to report a single post 10 times within 5 minutes, 1 was related to these image spammer/troll who posted with large images, the two other were obvious advertisement threads.
"Funnily" that rape porn bot which appeared once is not the most reported item (probably due to fast moderator reactions and multiple threads).
The user which was reported the most times accumulated 87 reports, followed by two users with 75 and 73 reported posts. The posts from 28 people were reported at least 20 times. 23 of these people do mainly frequent the OT forums, 3 the Civ5 forums. 49 other people were reported between 10 and 19 times.
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Anything else anyone might be interested in?
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aimeeandbeatles
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Perhaps this ask before but if counted how much percent the amount of non-rulebreak reports? For example reporting a wrong board or something.
Can't say that 
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I can say that X amount of posts were infracted, so they broke the rules, but I can't say that for the more than 4000 other reports, because there is no general indicator for that. There's no mark in the threads which says that whatever might have been done was due to maintenance things.
e.g. if we get a report which says "This thread is overdue", and the only reply of a moderator is "closed", then this could mean the thread went so much downhill, that it had to be closed to stop the bickering and flaming. Or it could mean it reached 1000 posts, and was closed due to tradition. And that can't automatically be detected (and going through these reports manually is a bit much).
.I can say that X amount of posts were infracted, so they broke the rules, but I can't say that for the more than 4000 other reports, because there is no general indicator for that. There's no mark in the threads which says that whatever might have been done was due to maintenance things.
e.g. if we get a report which says "This thread is overdue", and the only reply of a moderator is "closed", then this could mean the thread went so much downhill, that it had to be closed to stop the bickering and flaming. Or it could mean it reached 1000 posts, and was closed due to tradition. And that can't automatically be detected (and going through these reports manually is a bit much).
This is all very intersting.
Just to ask, was said bot the person who got an Octuple DL ban, or was the Octuple DL ban that other guy who showed up in Off-Topic a bit after that and posted a bunch of junk threads?
Just to ask, was said bot the person who got an Octuple DL ban, or was the Octuple DL ban that other guy who showed up in Off-Topic a bit after that and posted a bunch of junk threads?
My take on the decreasing infractions is that a few serial infractors who made up the bulk of the infractions have been permabanned now (including the the Octuple DL ban person), and you're getting better at getting rid of some of the spambots. So fart so good. But the decrease in reports (besides the same reasons) also has to do with some people losing faith in the moderation system, because there's a few of you who are clearly out of control.Great Work The_J!
The overall downward trend in infractions and reports is a good sign.
aimeeandbeatles
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I think I know who the 8 DL guy one. If I'm right, would a moderator please PM me?
You both missed one point, which is probably rather what you mean:
BUT the mentioned bot above was a real bot, not a troll.
And now another direction please
.The bots were not included in this analysis, the octuple guy is still a member here (and not the worst offender around), not that many persons were permabanned, and some of the downtrend in the infractions we rather connect to the permanent points system.
Moderator Action: 1 post unapproved, further decission pending.
Remember, no names!
Narz
keeping it real
Good band name.
