Moderation Transparency Report Jan - Jun 2022
Welcome to Hello World!'s transparency report. This report is the first one we've ever done, and the first one we'll be doing this year. One transparency report will also be made in December 2022 or January 2023. Each year gets two transparency reports, one from January to May/June and one from May/June to December. Due to various mistakes made in time management and scheduling by both Blizzy and me, this report is coming out in July 2022.
Definitions
A moderation action refers to a warning, mute, kick, or ban made by either our AutoModeration bots or our staff members.
A category refers to a category of rules. For example, our rules that disallow spam and advertising might be grouped into the category "Advertising and Spam".
List of rule categories
Raids -> User(s), or more likely, a group of automated spambots that join Hello World! and spam the DMs of members, spam our channels or attempt to overwhelm our moderation systems.
CSAM/NSFW -> User(s) who post Child Se*ual A*use Material (in Hello World! or otherwise) or users who post messages, media, emojis, or others that contain adult content or suggestive messages which suggest an s*x topic or action.
Advertising/Spam -> User(s) who post advertisements or promote their Discord server/services using improper channels or users who repeatedly post irrelevant or unsolicited messages in our channels in an attempt to disrupt conversation.
M.H.R (Malicious Help Requests)/Illegal Activity-> User(s) who ask for help with code that is malicious or users who participate in or promote illegal activity.
Other -> Anything that does not fit into the categories above.
Moderation action types by rule category
From January 1st, 2022 to May 21st, 2022 we executed a total of 59 bans, 4 kicks, 0 mutes, and 5 warnings. This means that the total amount of moderation actions was 68. By comparing this to the member count at the time, 241 members, and adding the number of total moderation actions, 68, we get a total of 309 moderated and unmoderated users(241+68=309).
52% of all bans were violations related to raiding, the highest amount in the ban action category. We experienced one raid on May 4. 2022 and all raid accounts were banned which explains this high number. 12 bans, or 20% of all bans, were related to CSAM/NSFW. All bans in this category are from CSAM. The rest of the bans are 11 relating to asking for help with malicious code and/or participating in illegal activities.
There were 3 kicks relating to raids, these are also from the May 4th raid and were banned after they were kicked. There was only 1 kick - it was related to repeated advertising. 3 warns were issued for suggestive messages, 1 for advertising, and 1 uncategorized.
Moderation actions by rule category
There's not much for me to add here, you can see what rule categories were actioned with which punishment on the graph.
Closing Notes
Providing a comfortable environment where you can ask for coding help or chat without toxicity is the reason Blizzy and I started the server. In other code help servers, we experienced either toxic or useless answers, like redirecting to the documentation of a library even though we'd already looked through it and were unable to find an answer.
On a final note I'd like to thank our staff members, the moderators who keep the community an enjoyable place and moderate, voluntarily, day and night. Thank you for reading.