Transparency Report
There is no report yet. Queer Town has not opened to the public. Everything so far has been testing, and numbers from testing would describe nothing real. The first report will cover the first full three months after the town opens, and a new one follows every three months.
Why we publish this
A community trusts the people who run it partly by seeing what they do. Large platforms publish these reports; a small one owes it just as much. Each report says how much was reported, what was removed and by whom, what happened to accounts, how appeals went — and how often we used the powers that exist only for emergencies.
What each report will count
- Reports: how many arrived, how many were urgent (danger to someone, threats, exploitation), how many led to action, and how many broke no rule.
- Removals: posts and replies removed by a board's own moderators, messages hidden by a room's moderators, things removed by Queer Town, and things taken down in bulk when something harmful spread.
- Accounts: warnings, restrictions, suspensions and bans.
- Appeals: how many people appealed a decision, and how many appeals we got wrong the first time and reversed.
- Emergency powers: how many times staff identified the person behind an anonymous post, and how many times staff looked up a member's email address. Both are possible only for serious reasons, each one is recorded with its reason, and here they are counted in public.
- Requests from governments and police: how many we received, from where, and what we did. We have received none.
Why small numbers are shown as "fewer than 10"
In a small community, an exact small number can point at a person — "one account banned for impersonation" may be enough for someone to work out who. So any count from 1 to 9 is published as fewer than 10. Zero is shown as zero. Large platforms don't need this rule; a small town does.
What a report never contains
No names, no usernames, no boards or rooms, no quotes from anything reported, and nothing about who reported what. Only counts.
What these numbers can't tell you
They count what was reported and what we did — not what nobody reported. A low number of removals may mean a kind community, or it may mean something went unseen. We'd rather say that than let a small number look like proof.
Questions
hello@queertown.in — a person reads it.