Report for Trove User moderation
Date first reported: 28/11/21 & 14/12/21
Trove Username: R.J.Trenwith
Reported activity: Harassment of other Trove users and inappropriate comments on
personal biography.
Details of reports
Date
Method reported
Report
(incl RefTracker
no.)
28/11/21 RSref154849
I am concerned at the intimidating message which the user
r.j.trenwith is now showing on his biography.
Has recently published this line - Conservative climate change
deniers, anti-vaxxers and racists should be forcibly
expatriated.
This kind of language being published on a website belonging
to a Commonwealth government body has the potential for
great harm to other members of the community if it is to
remain tolerated.
Messages like this go against the Trove terms of use,
particularly sections 4.4 b) and 4.4 d)
Whilst some people may not agree with the stance of views
on climate change, and vaccinations, the message delivered
here reminds one of previous periods of history, such as
forced expatriation of Jews and gypsies by Fascist Germany,
the Soviet Union, former member states of Yugoslavia in the
1990's and even the exodus of the Jews from Egypt.
I am concerned with the potential that if messages of this type
are al owed to remain, what other kinds of adverse
commentary is going to be viewed and remain visible for
some time - particularly with the impending shutdown of
Trove back office functions over the Christmas-New Year
break. We have seen the experience and issues participated in
by this user - under other usernames - caused in the past
when he has taken advantage of the absence of trove team
members over this period.
It appears that this user is moving his hatred of other with
contrary views from obscure websites to a more mainstream
trove.nla.gov.au
Recommended action
No Action: ☐
Warning: ☐
Strike policy enacted ☐
Rollback Text corrections: ☐
Remove tags: ☐
Remove comments/notes: ☐
Deactivation of account: ☒
Date
Type of action
Details for communication
14/12/21
Recommentations
This user has been contacted on a number of
occasions around their activity of adding redundant
text to articles in order to achieve a higher text
correction count. See R21/12347 & R21/152350.
On each occasion they have been reminded of the
Terms of Use but continue to contraven them. I
recommend
1. Deactivate the account and send message re:
deactivation to registered email address.
2. Deactivate other ‘Trenwith’ accounts. See
attached list.
3. Ban the creation of accounts with ‘trenwith’
trove.nla.gov.au
4. Investigate other technical options to al ow the
business area to manage this kind of report and
hide this activity from other users while reports
are investigated.
14/12/21
Deactivate account
Dear Trove user R.J.Trenwith,
Trove Management has received a report that
actions carried out on the Trove website attributed
to the username R.J.Trenwith have contravened the
Trove Terms of use. On investigation, Trove staff
have determined that these actions are in
contravention of the Terms.
The actions in question are the statements made in
your biography.
The Terms of Use for the Trove service require that
4.4 You agree, in using Trove, not to:
(b) use Trove in any unlawful, fraudulent, defamatory
or harmful manner, including to post any User
Content that is pornographic, obscene, threatening,
offensive, invasive of privacy, or which would
constitute or encourage a criminal offence, or give
rise to liability under, or breach, any law;.
(d) use Trove, or post any User Content that interferes
with, impacts, harasses or intimidates other users of
Trove or members of the public;
The Terms of use are available in full here:
https://trove.nla.gov.au/about/policies/terms-use
This incident is covered by Trove’s Terms of Use,
which give us the right to withdraw or suspend the
use of Trove by any person who uses Trove in
breach of these terms and conditions. This is your
final notification. The user account R.J.Trenwith wil
be revoked. Al content you contributed that
contravenes the Trove Terms of Use wil be removed
from Trove; and the associated email address de-
activated in Trove.
To contact Trove Management about this matter
you can reopen this enquiry.
Trove Management
trove.nla.gov.au
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Recommended action approved by _____________________________________
Approved action completed:
trove.nla.gov.au
