Report and infraction statistics 2011

[Mise]

no numbers for that.
Recently a post was reported 3 times by 3 different members, and it was not acted on it, because the thread was necroed and the post was already way too old.
That was probably the most.

Can't say that, it would mean to download all the reports, and I don't feel like stressing the server (because it would be 7200 report threads and the same amount of the related posts).
And like mentioned, a lot of bots have been kicked without having ever posted, so there's already a given discrepancy.
Additionally, if a post is reported, most mods will take a look at the whole page and will infract more if necessary -> you can't calculate a relation out of that.

Ahh, I see, thanks!

It would be nice to see how much more likely a "bad" post is to receive an infraction if it is reported vs if it is not reported. I guess there's no way to work that out from the data.

 

[The_J]

Even if the mentioned problems were not present, it would still not be possible, because not only bad posts are reported.
Because you are allowed to report threads also if you see that other types of moderative actions are needed, e.g. thread closings, movements, fixing polls, etc., and these don't result in any infractions.
And that's not totally negligible. In the group of people with 50+ reports, there's one modder, who regularly requests thread changes and post movements.
Additionally also moderators report lots of threads to get second opinions on certain posts.
So calculating a infraction - report relationship would really be difficult.

Thanks for putting this together!

The_J, what about the custom infractions - the ones where one post had two or more offenses attached to it? Did you try to make sense of those incidents? I know there were some that were rather confusing to sort out.

Not sure what you mean here. Infractions like e.g. "(Major) Trolling/Flaming" or "PDMA + piracy" are relatively clear imho, and I can see how they can appear.
Some are also combined with "Ignoring moderator warnings", which are probably mostly handed out after a mod already posted a warning in a thread and the problematic discussion still continued.

With a bit more work on the results, some could sure be combined, e.g. there's "Trolling and flaming" as well as "Trolling; flaming", but I don't think it's worth the time.

 

[Virote_Considon]

Most unusual forum for a report: The administrators forum (1 report).

1 infractions was handed out for the abuse of the report system.

Coincidence? I think not!

 

[Birdjaguar]

Great Work The_J!

The overall downward trend in infractions and reports is a good sign.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

What is the overall report/infract (that includes warning) ratio, and ratio per forum? (You could tell me to do that myself but I dont know how and I get the wrong numbers).

Also do the numbers include overturned infracts?

 

[Mise]

Yeah, <number of infractions reversed>/<number of infractions complained about> would be a funny stat. Along with "average number of PMs per reversed infraction".

 

[Birdjaguar]

For the most part warnings were not included. There are different types: formal zero point ones issued like infractions and the more common in thread posts by mods (which are not tracked at all).

IIRC overturned or reversed infractions are such a small % that they can be ignored. Infractions that are "complained" about are not tracked. Many posters complain about being infracted, but accept it.

I think that the number of formally reviewed infractions in 2011 is maybe a dozen. In some cases mods reverse infractions based on pms and staff discussion outside of the formal review process. I don't think it is very many though.

 

[The_J]

What is the overall report/infract (that includes warning) ratio, and ratio per forum? (You could tell me to do that myself but I dont know how and I get the wrong numbers).

Besides what BJ said, you can't calculate that, because not every reported post gets infracted, and not every infracted post has been reported before.

Also do the numbers include overturned infracts?

The reversed infractions and warnings are included there, because I can't exclude them without checking every thread.

But a short check: If I look at the infractions subforum, I can see 124 threads, which got at least one response. You have to know, if an infraction gets reversed, this creates a response to this thread with the reason, but you can also comment there, e.g. additional info and such stuff.
So there are not 124 reversed infractions. I'd guess it's at max. 50% of that.

Yeah, <number of infractions reversed>/<number of infractions complained about> would be a funny stat. Along with "average number of PMs per reversed infraction".

Yeah, would be interesting . But I'd guess not very meaningful, because we probably get complainments for every infraction (besides for the adbots, and even there you can't be sure ^^).

 

[mayor]

Yeah, would be interesting . But I'd guess not very meaningful, because we probably get complainments for every infraction (besides for the adbots, and even there you can't be sure ^^).

I'd beg to differ

 

[The_J]

Okay, that's an exaggeration .


Oh, some more fodder (I think I have too much time...): I noted by hand ever issued ban. So that's definitely not totally accurate.
So...2011:
- 91 people received at least one ban
- 4 of these bans have been requested
- In total 167 temporary bans
- and 11 permabans for regular users were issued
- 46 people received only single bans
- 30 people two or more bans

The highest amount of temporary bans were 10 bans for a single user, 8 for another and 7 bans for 3 other people.


Other bans:
- 35 double logins (at least 8 resolving to a single person) have been kicked
- 61 troll DLs resolving to another person have been permabanned
- as well as 13 trolls of unknown source
- 6 accounts related to a piracy site have been permabanned
- Fastest temporary ban happened for a user, who received 8 points within 1 hour
- 4 people had to be permabanned after exzessive rants due to single infractions or temporary bans

 

[madviking]

No problem guys, just doing my part.

 

[classical_hero]

What percentage of reports rare just for non infracting moderation action, like closing a thread by request or moving it, to those that are reported for possible infraction?

 

[The_J]

Sorry, can't say that .
The reports themself were not investigated, and even then the text for the reason could be very different, e.g. "wrong area", "needs movement", etc., so that an exact assignment would not really be possilbe .

 

[Boundless]

- and 11 permabans for regular users were issued

What is your definition of a "regular user" 1000+ posts? 1+ Year Active?

 

[ori]

those accounts not obviously registered to break the rules (advertising, double login, troll accounts).

 

[GhostWriter16]

Coincidence? I think not!

I have it on good authority that it is.

 

[NickyJ]

I have it on good authority that it is.

So you are Turner after all!

 

[hoplitejoe]

I love stats

 

[NinjaCow64]

Nice job J!

Just out of interest, where did the civ4 stories and tales subforum come in terms of post infracted/reported there?

Also, is it possible to see where the infractions were handed out?

 

[ilduce349]

Is there data for # of posts per infraction?

What I mean was, which forums were the worst at receiving fractions without the data being skewed with the volume of posts?