Contest Investigation Findings and Corrected Results

[Vela Nanashi]

Every server on the internet logs ips of all visitors unless they go out of their way not to, so yeah I know it is scary but that is what vpns are for

[R.R.Ryan]

Not for nothing, but maybe not much of anything, one site I post at won't post a story that scores below 95% human writing on whatever checker they use.

[HistBuff]

Thanks for the explanations, @Claire! I noticed I've lost 12 rating points overall, but it's OK, I understand. After all, I care more about the number of views my stories get than the ratings. It seems that many readers enjoy my stories and are too shy to be open about it; I sometimes receive PMs from readers that never have rated me once and they say this or that story is hot.

Wow, I'm surprised about "Festung Breslau" being a winner. It has definite flaws in writing since it was my first story in German, but one thing I can say about it is that the scenario is believable, as Soviet troops were known for the massive rapes they inflicted on civilian population, so you can have a countess detached from reality who gets debased the way I portrayed.

On another note, I received an email from GaggedKitty, who was one of the best-liked authors on Ravishu and also very well known on Literotica. She might pop up here! She shares my taste for long stories with massive rapes and her descriptions are very detailed and accurate.

[Labaal]

Dw I'll still be to read rate and reply to your work @Claire

[RapeU]

Dw I'll still be to read rate and reply to your work

If it makes you feel better, I'm a teacher. I also have to be careful of exposure to others in real life.

[VictimEyes]

Attention moderation unit;

Respectfully submitted,

If Geolocation is going to become a normal practice then I hope you will always consider local populations and population densities. I live in the greater New York City metropolitan region alongside over TWENTY MILLION other people and as a result, I am FAR more likely to receive a rating or a vote from an unconnected complete stranger (who also lives in this region) than would a person who lives in a small village.

[Vela Nanashi]

It took many many data points for the investigation to point to this happening, not a single thing, so you should not have to worry about that @VictimEyes.

[RapeU]

It took many many data points for the investigation to point to this happening, not a single thing, so you should not have to worry about that @VictimEyes.

Exactly. Geolocation by itself would never be enough. Geolocation was only one part of a much larger pattern that included exact IP matches, account timing, voting behavior, and other suspicious activity that generally wouldn't happen under normal circumstances.

Nobody is going to be treated as suspicious just because they live in the same broad region as another member.

[Claire]

@VictimEyes Both @Vela Nanashi and @RapeU already said it: we didn't just randomly look at two IPs.

I would like to use this opportunity to clarify my original stance on data collection and privacy here. I value privacy a lot and to this day you can find the following post on the forum:

Your privacy on this forum

Maybe you are considering to create an account because you want to publish a story yourself or want to comment on something you read. But you have privacy concerns regarding your data because being associated with adult content, especially with darker stories like ours, can be a sensitive issue. I get that, so let's talk openly about this. Let's start with the facts and then I'll give you my views on the issue. First, here’s what is tracked:

• The hosting provider logs your IP address. They do so right now as you are reading this topic even without you having an account.
• The forum software also logs your IP address and links it to your account and your posts. Other users can of course not see that, but I as an admin can.
• That’s standard practice on basically every website you visit.

If you’d like to stay more anonymous, feel free to use a VPN to mask your IP address. When registering, the forum only requires two things:

• A made-up username of your choice
• An email address

I recommend creating a dedicated email address just for this forum to keep your account separate from your other online activity. Many users, including myself, use for example Proton Mail as a mail provider that values privacy (this is not an ad, just a personal recommendation).

These were just the facts. Now, my personal stance:
I don’t care who you are. I’m not tracking you beyond what the forum logs by default, I don’t use Google Analytics or similar tools, and I’m not selling your data. I don’t and I won’t run targeted ads — in fact, I think targeted ads should be illegal.

If law enforcement ever requires information for legal reasons, I will comply — but beyond that, I have no interest in collecting data about you or sharing it with others.

And maybe a word of advice: Be careful with the personal information you reveal about yourself here. Not because I’d misuse it, but because the internet never forgets. You really don’t want a future employer Googling your name and finding you on a rape fantasy forum.

This forum is for reading, writing, and discussing sexual fantasies in an adult space. No spying, no tricks, no hidden agenda.

If you still have questions or concerns about privacy, feel free to ask them in the Guest Questions board.

Now, I'm no longer the owner, but that post is still online as it has ever been. But that post reflects my beliefs about internet privacy.

[LtBroccoli]

Our goal is to keep things as private and hidden as possible. The only info we could see was username and IP address, and those are buried deep in submenus that are a pain to get to. We don't want to see anything else.

Since IP ranges are typically assigned to certain regions and ISP's, a little bit of detective work could point to a person logging in from Cox Cable in NYC. But it's common for that IP to fluctuate throughout the range when different people log in. Someone from the Lower East Side might have 10.10.127.18 while a customer from the Bronx could have 10.10.127.39. And it's also common for those IP's change from session to session. What's not common is for the same patterns to pop up across different accounts. The same 5 accounts all hitting the same VPN ranges in Texas one month then hitting the same range in Europe a month later, then back to Texas a week later all within a few minutes of each other looks sus.

Like the others are saying, someone else using the same ISP votes for your story isn't nearly enough to warrant a look. If suddenly VictimEyes2, VictimEyes3, VictimEyes4 and VictimAyes all logged in from the same IP address within 5 minutes of each other and all voted for a story by VictimEyes and did this consistently month after month, then we'd ask some questions. Especially if VictimAyes voted for a story in a language they claimed they couldn't read and the only things those alts ever did was rate, comment, and vote for the original VictimEyes account.