Why no figures appear here yet
A transparency report covers a closed reporting period. The first period for this site has not closed, so there is nothing to publish, and estimates would be worse than silence: a table of invented counts is the exact failure that transparency reporting exists to prevent.
What is published now is the method. When the first period closes, the figures appear on this page under the headings below, using the definitions set out here, so that the numbers can be checked against the rules that produced them.
What gets counted
| Category | Source channel |
|---|---|
| Copyright and trademark | /dmca/ |
| Intimate imagery, no consent | /ncii-report/ |
| Editorial error or correction | /report/ |
| Impersonation | /report/ |
| Private information published | /report/ |
| Creator delisting request | /report/ |
| Data rights requests | /dsar/ |
| Requests from authorities | /law-enforcement/ |
For each category: complaints received, complaints acted on, and the median time from receipt to action.
How a case is classified
One complaint, one category, chosen by the most serious element in it. A copyright notice that also raises a consent problem is counted as a consent case, because that is how it is handled: on the 48-hour clock rather than the ordinary one. Median times exclude cases where no action was taken, and every timestamp is recorded in UTC.
Where a category receives very few complaints in a period, the count is published without a median. A median drawn from two cases describes those two cases and nothing else.
Own-initiative changes
Removals and corrections that begin here rather than with a complaint are counted separately: pages corrected for accuracy, profiles delisted at a creator's request, links removed because a destination stopped being what it claimed to be.
Automated decisions
There are none. No system on this site removes, demotes or publishes anything on its own. Every consequential decision is made by a person, and where software assists in preparing editorial material, the limits of that assistance are described at /ai-content-policy/.
Complaints about complaints
There is no internal appeals body and no arbitration scheme here, because there is no user-generated content to appeal about. A decision you disagree with is disputed by replying to the same thread, and the reply is read by the same role that made the decision. That is a smaller promise than a formal appeal, and it is stated as such.
Applicability
Whether the EU Digital Services Act applies to this site is unsettled, as /legal-contact/ explains: the obligations attach to services that host, cache or transmit content belonging to someone else, and this site does none of those. Reporting is published because a site that takes complaints should show what it did with them, not because a designation has been established.
Schedule
The first report covers the first full year of operation and appears after that year closes. Reports are annual after that. Each published table carries the period it covers, and no figure is backfilled into a period that is already published.
Who compiles it
This is an independent editorial project with no registered company. Figures are compiled from the case log by the Editorial Lead role and questions go to [email protected].
Questions people ask
Why is the table empty?
Because the first reporting period has not closed. Publishing estimated counts would defeat the purpose of a transparency report, so the method is published first and the figures follow.
How often will figures appear?
Annually, after the first full year of operation closes. Each table states the period it covers, and published periods are never rewritten afterwards.
Does a complaint get counted twice?
No. Each case is counted once, in the most serious category it touches, which is also the category that determines how fast it is handled.
Are any removals automated?
No. Nothing is removed or demoted by software on its own. Every decision is made by a person and logged with a case reference.
Does the Digital Services Act apply to this site?
It is unsettled. The Act targets services that host or transmit other people's content, and everything here is written here. Reporting is published regardless.