What We Remove.
One hundred and sixty-eight posts out of 41,902 in twelve months. Every one of them categorised, counted and published, because a moderation policy nobody can audit is a moderation policy nobody should believe.
Twelve months, in four numbers.
Every removal, by category.
| Category | Count | Share of removals | Share of all posts |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abuse or personal attacks | 61 | 36% | 0.15% |
| Selling and spam | 44 | 26% | 0.11% |
| Party politics | 28 | 17% | 0.07% |
| Someone else’s private information | 17 | 10% | 0.04% |
| Legal risk | 11 | 7% | 0.03% |
| Everything else | 7 | 4% | 0.02% |
| Total | 168 | 100% | 0.40% |
What each category actually means.
A category with no explanation is a category that can be stretched to cover anything.
Abuse or personal attacks — 61
Almost always one member being unpleasant to another about how they farm.
Selling and spam — 44
Nattering is not a marketplace. Only Farmers is, and that is where it belongs.
Party politics — 28
Agricultural policy is fair game. Party political campaigning is not, and the line is drawn deliberately.
Someone else’s private information — 17
Addresses, phone numbers, photographs of people who did not agree to it.
Legal risk — 11
Mostly unproven allegations about named businesses.
Everything else — 7
Including two accounts that turned out to be the same person arguing with himself.
Why publish this at all.
Most platforms publish a transparency report because a regulator made them, in a format designed to be technically responsive and practically unreadable. Percentages without denominators, categories without definitions, and a chart that goes up.
This is one table with six rows, a denominator, and a plain sentence saying what each row means. It fits on a page. Anybody can check whether the numbers add up, and they do.
The reason to do it is not compliance. It is that a member deciding whether to say something slightly contentious about subsidy policy deserves to know that twenty-eight posts were removed for party politics last year and none for disagreeing about farming.
Twenty-eight removals for party politics. None for disagreeing about farming.
The process behind every one of the hundred and sixty-eight.
Deciding
- Automated removals
- 0A filter holds obvious spam for review. It does not remove.
- Human decisions
- 168Every single one.
- Median time
- 4 hours 20 minutes
- Slowest
- 3 daysA defamation question that needed reading properly.
Appealing
- Appeals raised
- 22
- Upheld
- 6The post was restored and the member told why it had gone.
- Heard by
- A different personAlways. Never the original decision-maker.
- Median appeal time
- 2 days
Accounts
- Posting paused, 7 days
- 19
- Closed permanently
- 4
- Closed without warning
- 0None of the four met the immediate-closure bar.
- Registered accounts
- 23,549For scale.
All figures are for this demonstration build. There is no real register and no real moderation queue behind them; the shape is what a platform of this size would actually produce.
Published quarterly
Same table, same denominator, every time.
No automated removals
A filter holds. A person decides.
Appeals go elsewhere
Never back to the person who decided.
The rules
Six of them, and they fit on a page.
