CLEAR Forum Censorship On Pace to Double October's Record

[WiMIN]

We took at look at the changes CLEAR has made to the forum posts of
their subscribers.

Out of 1,251 actions in the log, 672 were done by CLEAR censors (the
remaining 579 were removals done by the posters themselves---something
I've done a few times when a comment posts itself 2, 3, or even 4
times as a result of a form submission issue).

Of the 672 actions by CLEAR censors, 175 archived a topic, 156 changed
a topic title, 145 merged topics, 187 removed a post, 7 restored a
post, and 2 unarchived a topic.

The very low number of restored posts or unarchived topics must
indicate that CLEAR censors are correct in their editorial actions a
very, very, very high percentage of the time, right?

Reasons were provided for 8 of the 175 archiving actions, 0 of the 156
title changes, and 112 of the 187 deletions. The merit of these
reasons is not quantifiable.

We don't have data for the overall volume of posts over time, but of
the 672 actions by Clear censors described above, here is the count by
month:

MAR: 25 (incomplete month)
APR: 64
MAY: 93
JUN: 71
JUL: 39
AUG: 65
SEP: 53
OCT: 98
NOV: 164 (through 11/19)

Looks like October and November have kept the censors busy!

As for the censors, these data show ten of them. They are listed here
in the order of the number of editorial actions that show in the log:

249 Allen ( http://forums.clear.com/people/bruce_perlstein )
161 Chris M ( http://forums.clear.com/people/chris_m_640535 )
159 Robert ( http://forums.clear.com/people/robert_hegarty_868266
)
61 Sheldon ( http://forums.clear.com/people/sheldon_r_1392114 )
14 Alyssa R ( http://forums.clear.com/people/alyssa_roszell )
12 miz_ginevra ( http://forums.clear.com/people/miz_ginevra )
10 Morgan Sherwood ( http://forums.clear.com/people/flawedartist
)
3 Heidi ( http://forums.clear.com/people/therealheidi )
2 RobL ( http://forums.clear.com/people/rob_lenderman )
1 Paul ( http://forums.clear.com/people/your_name_670746 )

Download the raw data here: http://clear-wimax-uncensored.googlegroups.com/web/CLEAR
Forum Change Log Data v2010-11-20.csv .

It'd be great if others were to analyze these data further and see
which topics CLEAR is especially interested in deleting, changing, or
archiving.

Unfortunately, the exact content deleted is unavailable.

You can also query Google for changes via
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=%22This+reply+was+removed%22+site:forums.clear.com&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=
.

Add an additional keyword to the Google search to focus in on
something of interest to you.

And the changes are also listed on the company's site itself (for now,
at least). See http://forums.clear.com/clearcom/changes .