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**Tyche Shepherd** · 09-25-2009, 12:47 PM

What did the naughty people do ?

Last week I mentioned that I had been storing Second Life Incident Reports wsince the beginning of the month to build up a database similar to my Region Survey Database. A forum lurker who wants to remain anonymous, who read this , contacted me in-world and sent me the full past 28 months worth of published incident reports (21600+). I cannot thank the person enough for providing this data.

The data is now fully imported into my database and cross linked with my region tables,so here is an initial poke at the mass of information .

Firstly I should point out published Incident Reports are only those AR's which have been resolved and where a warning or suspension has been made. It doesn't seem to cover bans or suspensions due to account issues or the other strange reasons Lindens use to suspend people.They also cover Teen Grid as well as the Main Grid.

In total I now have data which seems complete from 7th Jun 2007 up to the current time, at the moment this comes to 21665 published incidents.

Over time there has been a decline in the number of reported incidents as can be seen below:

In particular there seems a big fall in published incident reports at the beginning of this year.

There are 91 unique types of violations in total, the most common was Community Standard: Assault, Scripted Objects which covers 3654 incidents , The full list is as follows :

Code:

Community Standards: Assault, Scripted Objects	3654
Community Standards: Disturbing the Peace	2640
Community Standards: Disturbing the Peace, Scripted Objects	1862
Disturbing the Peace: Repetitive Content, Spamming	1530
Community Standards: Assault, Safe Area	1090
Terms of Service: Gambling	1090
Community Standards: Harassment, Verbal Abuse	1063
Community Standards: Indecency, Mature Content	975
Disturbing the Peace: Abuse of Sandbox Resources	633
Disturbing the Peace: Parcel Encroachment	578
Community Standards: Harassment, Network Advertising Violation	547
Community Standards: Intolerance	524
Community Standards: Broadly Offensive Content or Conduct	509
Harassment	407
Community Standards: Disturbing the Peace, Ad Content	376
Community Standards: Harassment, Impeding Movement	370
Disturbing the Peace: Misuse of Public Spaces	369
Community Standards: Violations using Alternate Accounts	318
Community Standards: Sexual Harassment	310
Terms of Service: Identity Confirmation	189
Terms of Service: Missing Real Life Information	184
Community Standards: Ageplay	182
Community Standards: Disclosure, Second Life	178
Community Standards: Harassment, Ad Farms	170
Indecency: Global Standards: Profile	160
Indecency: Inappropriate Avatar Name	118
Terms of Service: Mature Content	115
Terms of Service: Global Attacks	112
Terms of Service: Teen Profanity	89
Community Standards : Gaming Traffic Violation	83
Community Standards, Disturbing the Peace, Land Use	78
Community Standards: Rules of Conduct	76
Community Standards: Disclosure, First Life	76
Community Standards: Harassment, Soliciting Abuse	72
Community Standards: Harassment, Advertising Violation.	66
Harassment : Defaming individuals or groups	64
Disturbing the Peace - Camping Chairs	63
Terms of Service: Misrepresentation	56
Terms of Service: Gambling Solicitation	46
Abuse of Support Staff	45
TG: Abuse of Sandbox Resources	43
Community Standards: Disclosure, Remote Monitoring	41
Terms of Service: Chain Letter or Pyramid Scheme	39
Terms of Service: Misrepresentation as Linden	38
Teen Verbal Harassment	38
Indecency: Global Standards: Group Information	36
Community Standards: Indecency, Global Standards	28
Terms of Service: Permissions Abuse	27
Community Standards: Indecency, Inappropriate Naming	24
Community Standards: Land Cutting	20
Terms of Service: Interception of Payments	20
Terms of Service: Copyright Infringement	17
Intolerance - Profile	16
Terms of Service : Misrepresentation : Using Linden in Avatar Name	16
Terms of Service: Teen Accessing Main Grid	15
Terms of Service: Trademark Violation	14
Terms of Service - Under Age	13
Terms of Service: Account Security	13
Terms of Service: Fraud	12
Terms of Service: Teen Sexual Harassment	12
Terms of Service: Account Transfer	11
Terms of Service: Script Exploitation	11
Disturbing the Peace: Teen Repetitive Content, Spamming	9
Terms of Service: Misrepresentation as Mentor	7
Event Listings Abuse: Commercial Advertisements	7
Terms of Service: 3rd party account use	7
Terms of Service: Banking	7
Terms of Service: Permissions Exploit	6
Community Standards: Indecency, Adult Content	5
Terms of Service: Misrepresentation as Linden or Mentor	5
Second Life: Respect, Pets	5
Terms of Service: Adult Allowing Teen Access to MG	4
Terms of Service: Teen Sexual Activites	4
Forum Formal Warning: Personal Attacks	3
PJIRA: Failure to Comply With Rules of Conduct	3
Terms of Service: Teen Mature Activites	3
Forum Suspension: Intolerance	2
Terms of Service: Solicitation	2
Forum Formal Warning: Intolerance	2
Request for Transfer to Main Grid	2
Terms of Service: Permission Abuse	2
Failure to Comply with Intellectual Property Notification	1
Event Listings Abuse: Spam	1
Terms of Service: Inappropriate Conduct	1
Forum/Blog Suspension - Misuse of Forums	1
Community Standards: Disclosure, Teen Second Life	1
Forum Banning - Misuse of Forums	1
Forum Informal Warning: Intolerance	1
Forum Informal Warning: Indecency, Mature Content	1
Terms of Service: Network Interference From SL	1

There are slight differences between the most common violations between the 3 years I have data for . The following charts show the 15 most common violations by year and for the whole period

Whilst there are common violations over time, some particular violations change in frequency over time, for instance, the distribution of Gambling incidents is as follows

Network advertising incidents have zero presence before Octo 08 when they were made against the TOS.

Recently there has been a growth in a new type of violation, Identity Confirmation, which todate is the most frequent violation reported in September.

So that gives us some idea what people do , now lets look at where they do it, here there are very little suprises with Public Help Islands, Sandboxes and Info-bubs dominating the list, with No Specific Region being the most common. Help Island Public hosts over 4% of all published incidents.

The list of all regions with at least 20 incidents in this period is as follows:

Code:

No Region Specified	1895
Help Island Public	880
Sandbox Island	698
LiaisonLand	670
Sandbox Goguen	533
Sandbox Cordova	527
Sandbox - Weapons testing (no damag	492
Sandbox Island Extension	475
Waterhead	434
Ahern	283
Orientation Island Public	237
Wengen	223
Korea1	212
Morris	211
Plum	144
Sandbox Island (TG)	113
Balance	112
Miramare	108
Burns	105
Sandbox Island 4 (TG)	102
Sandbox Island 2 (TG)	91
Help Island Public2	85
Grignano	85
MLBR Arealivre	83
Sandbox Newcomb	83
Sandbox Wanderton	82
Lime	80
Murray	79
Combat (sandbox) Rausch	76
Sandbox Island 3 (TG)	71
Mauve	65
Barcola	61
Bear	60
Luna	59
Dore	57
Obscure	56
TSL Weapons Testing Sandbox	55
Violet	54
Lewis	51
Nix	51
Linden Lab HQ 3	51
ALOHA FREE PARADISE	47
Kuula	45
Hanja	45
Lusk	45
Ballers City	43
None Found	42
Nissan Altima	42
Bonifacio	40
Korea3	39
Fermi	38
Heron Island	37
Freebies	36
Avatar Island	36
FurNation Vista	35
Calleta	34
Brampton	33
Adams	29
Novel	29
Gukyeol	29
Hyboria	28
Isabel	26
Q	26
London England UK	25
Hangeul	25
Natoma	25
Pooley	24
Idu	24
The DIDI Initiative	24
Little Blue Island	22
Tutorial Island	22
Bug Island	22
Hosting	21
Mature Sandbox	21
SkyBeam	21
FairChang Island	21
TROPICANA	21
Rasley	20
Rizal	20

Now lets look at what happens to these naughty people :

52% of published incidents result in a Warning, the rest in a suspension of 1 to 14 days.

Over time there has been a relative decline in the number of incidents which result in suspension as can be seen below:

Hope this has been of some interest

**Tyche Shepherd** · 09-25-2009, 12:48 PM

The 644 incidents which resulted in a suspension of 14 days involved the following violations

Code:

Community Standards: Assault, Scripted Objects	111
Community Standards: Violations using Alternate Accounts	84
Terms of Service: Gambling	80
Disturbing the Peace: Repetitive Content, Spamming	51
Community Standards: Disturbing the Peace, Scripted Objects	50
Terms of Service: Global Attacks	50
Community Standards: Disturbing the Peace	47
Community Standards: Assault, Safe Area	20
Disturbing the Peace: Abuse of Sandbox Resources	19
Community Standards: Intolerance	17
Community Standards: Harassment, Verbal Abuse	13
Terms of Service: Interception of Payments	10
Community Standards: Disturbing the Peace, Ad Content	7
Community Standards: Indecency, Mature Content	6
Community Standards: Harassment, Ad Farms	6
Community Standards: Broadly Offensive Content or Conduct	6
Terms of Service: Permissions Abuse	6
Community Standards: Ageplay	5
Harassment	5
Community Standards: Harassment, Soliciting Abuse	5
Terms of Service: Teen Profanity	4
Community Standards: Sexual Harassment	4
Terms of Service: Gambling Solicitation	4
Terms of Service: Account Security	4
Community Standards: Harassment, Network Advertising Violation	3
Community Standards : Gaming Traffic Violation	2
Terms of Service: Mature Content	2
Community Standards: Harassment, Impeding Movement	2
Disturbing the Peace: Misuse of Public Spaces	2
Terms of Service: Copyright Infringement	2
TG: Abuse of Sandbox Resources	2
Terms of Service: Account Transfer	2
Harassment : Defaming individuals or groups	1
Terms of Service: Chain Letter or Pyramid Scheme	1
Forum Suspension: Intolerance	1
Terms of Service: Permissions Exploit	1
Teen Verbal Harassment	1
Terms of Service: Permission Abuse	1
Terms of Service: Misrepresentation	1
Terms of Service: Script Exploitation	1
Community Standards: Disclosure, First Life	1
Terms of Service: Adult Allowing Teen Access to MG	1
Community Standards: Disclosure, Second Life	1
Community Standards: Disclosure, Remote Monitoring	1
Terms of Service: Teen Accessing Main Grid	1

If anyone wants to see some trend info on a particular violation I'd be happy to extract the data

**Cindy Claveau** · 09-25-2009, 12:50 PM

Wow. I'm speechless, Tyche. This is amazing work, thank you!

**Tyche Shepherd** · 09-25-2009, 12:50 PM

Every incident report has a description , and whilst I've not read all 21000, this one really did make me giggle and needs it's own post - I just wish I'd been in the Fortuna Region on the day after Christmas 2007

Date Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Violation Second Life: Respect, Pets
Region Fortuna
Description Misrepresentation of Ferrets as Hedgehogs will be pursued to the highest courts, or ignored completely, we dunno
Action Taken Warning issued.

Camille Serpentine · 09-25-2009, 12:50 PM

Wow! nice work Tyche.
My only complaint is with the pie graphs. I find a lot of the colors too similar to distinguish the difference.

cieraspyker · 09-25-2009, 12:55 PM

You dont get out much do you? snicker...

Argent Stonecutter · 09-25-2009, 01:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tyche Shepherd

Misrepresentation of Ferrets as Hedgehogs will be pursued to the highest courts, or ignored completely, we dunno

Oh-oh...

Snapzilla Snapshot - Argent Stonecutter - Porkypine

**Beebo Brink** · 09-25-2009, 02:46 PM

Tyche, I have only one thing to say about your work in presenting us with all this data:

Ben Hoark · 09-25-2009, 02:52 PM

Wow, amazing, and fascinating.

Um...excuse my ignorance but...

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tyche Shepherd

Recently there has been a growth in a new type of violation, Identity Confirmation...

...what's that?

Argent Stonecutter · 09-25-2009, 03:04 PM

As far as I know "Identity confirmation" means "someone was reported as underage, and asked to send in proof of identity".

Sidney Kwon · 09-25-2009, 03:37 PM

Is it just me or did all those pie charts and no actual pie leave anyone else feeling a little weak with hunger?

Great work, very interesting stuff. Thanks, but it makes my last Powerpoint presentation look like creamed crap in a cup

**Tyche Shepherd** · 09-25-2009, 03:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Argent Stonecutter

As far as I know "Identity confirmation" means "someone was reported as underage, and asked to send in proof of identity".

that may be some cases, but from the descriptions it also seems to cover Missing registration details as well, though the most common description seems just to be "Terms of Service" . I believe it's a general push to ensure that peoples registration details are real , but I could be wrong

BJ Tunwarm · 09-25-2009, 06:18 PM

Amazing work.

It sort of looks like '07 was a peak year of being naughty. I wonder what was up?

bladyblue · 09-25-2009, 06:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tyche Shepherd

If anyone wants to see some trend info on a particular violation I'd be happy to extract the data

Your new forum name is DataGod.

bladyblue · 09-25-2009, 06:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BJ Tunwarm

Amazing work.

It sort of looks like '07 was a peak year of being naughty. I wonder what was up?

The beginning of free accounts.

Rebel Television · 09-25-2009, 06:36 PM

It's a shame about Sandbox Cordova and Goguen. The "social sandbox" experience is one that drove me to create and contribute in the first place, but these days, every sandbox is either a ghost town, or in the process of being brought to a crawl by a massive pile of scripted annoyances. Not surprised to see those two near the top of the list.

Argent Stonecutter · 09-25-2009, 08:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bladyblue

The beginning of free accounts.

Free accounts started in August or September 2005. Unverified free accounts started in June 2006.

Rooke Ayres · 09-25-2009, 08:59 PM

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data explosion, incident report, tycharrific, tyche didn't do this

Sansarya · 09-25-2009, 09:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tyche data

The 644 incidents which resulted in a suspension of 14 days involved the following violations of Service:

Copyright Infringement 2

Uhm...TWO?

Camille Serpentine · 09-25-2009, 10:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sansarya

Uhm...TWO?

I think that's the type of infringement..

Looks more like 644 accounts were each suspended 14 days for that type of infringement

Tess Whitcroft · 09-25-2009, 10:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tyche Shepherd

Every incident report has a description , and whilst I've not read all 21000, this one really did make me giggle and needs it's own post - I just wish I'd been in the Fortuna Region on the day after Christmas 2007

Date Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Violation Second Life: Respect, Pets
Region Fortuna
Description Misrepresentation of Ferrets as Hedgehogs will be pursued to the highest courts, or ignored completely, we dunno
Action Taken Warning issued.

See the thing is, in California where Linden Lab is, ferrets are not legal. My guess is that this was a bunch of ferrets in California disguised as hedgehogs to avoid the law.

Tess

Sansarya · 09-25-2009, 10:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Camille Serpentine

I think that's the type of infringement..

Looks more like 644 accounts were each suspended 14 days for that type of infringement

It says at the top of that list that 111 accounts were suspended for 14 days for Community Standards Violation: Assault, Scripted Objects. At the bottom of the list it says 2 accounts were suspended for Copyright Infringement

Argent Stonecutter · 09-25-2009, 10:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tess Whitcroft

See the thing is, in California where Linden Lab is, ferrets are not legal. My guess is that this was a bunch of ferrets in California disguised as hedgehogs to avoid the law.

Tess

So I gotta stick to sims in the Dallas colo center? o_O

Hypatia Callisto · 09-25-2009, 10:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tyche Shepherd

Every incident report has a description , and whilst I've not read all 21000, this one really did make me giggle and needs it's own post - I just wish I'd been in the Fortuna Region on the day after Christmas 2007

Date Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Violation Second Life: Respect, Pets
Region Fortuna
Description Misrepresentation of Ferrets as Hedgehogs will be pursued to the highest courts, or ignored completely, we dunno
Action Taken Warning issued.

Furries have the best dramaz.

(sorry, Argent)

Camille Serpentine · 09-25-2009, 10:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sansarya

It says at the top of that list that 111 accounts were suspended for 14 days for Community Standards Violation: Assault, Scripted Objects. At the bottom of the list it says 2 accounts were suspended for Copyright Infringement

I based what I said on what you quoted originally:

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tyche data
The 644 incidents which resulted in a suspension of 14 days involved the following violations of Service:

Copyright Infringement 2

If you read just that part you quoted, that is how I got my interpretation.
I'm going by the colon after Service, then it says Copyright Infringement 2.

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Tyche Shepherd Fortuna vitrea est *SLU Supporter* Cherry red lips and sick on her boots Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: UK Posts: 7,860 My Mood: SL Join Date: 26th April 2007 Awards: 1	Every incident report has a description , and whilst I've not read all 21000, this one really did make me giggle and needs it's own post - I just wish I'd been in the Fortuna Region on the day after Christmas 2007 Date Wednesday, December 26, 2007 Violation Second Life: Respect, Pets Region Fortuna Description Misrepresentation of Ferrets as Hedgehogs will be pursued to the highest courts, or ignored completely, we dunno Action Taken Warning issued.

09-25-2009, 12:50 PM	#5 (permalink)
Camille Serpentine Account Closed Screwing your scripts Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 1,505	Wow! nice work Tyche. My only complaint is with the pie graphs. I find a lot of the colors too similar to distinguish the difference.

09-25-2009, 12:55 PM	#6 (permalink)
cieraspyker Banned I WIN. EOM Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: land of Nunya Posts: 308 My Mood: SL Join Date: 2-08 smile. Business: which ones? Client: All but that Phoenix POS	You dont get out much do you? snicker...

09-25-2009, 03:04 PM	#10 (permalink)
Argent Stonecutter Emergency Mustelid Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 15,374	As far as I know "Identity confirmation" means "someone was reported as underage, and asked to send in proof of identity".

09-25-2009, 03:37 PM	#11 (permalink)
Sidney Kwon Declares Shenanigans Questing to level up in SL Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: My House Posts: 1,200 My Mood: SL Join Date: 2006 Business: Not Too Shanty	Is it just me or did all those pie charts and no actual pie leave anyone else feeling a little weak with hunger? Great work, very interesting stuff. Thanks, but it makes my last Powerpoint presentation look like creamed crap in a cup

09-25-2009, 06:36 PM	#16 (permalink)
Rebel Television Les Yeux Sans Visage Embodiment of Scarlet Devil Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 1,408	It's a shame about Sandbox Cordova and Goguen. The "social sandbox" experience is one that drove me to create and contribute in the first place, but these days, every sandbox is either a ghost town, or in the process of being brought to a crawl by a massive pile of scripted annoyances. Not surprised to see those two near the top of the list.

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