It's New Year's Day in [Stack Exchange land](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zulu_Time)...
A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:
We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, in that we amortize the overall moderation cost of the system across thousands of teeny-tiny slices of effort contributed by regular, everyday users.
-- A Theory of Moderation
While there certainly are Moderators here, a significant amount of the moderation is done by ordinary people, using the privileges
they've earned by virtue of their contributions to the site. Each of you contributes a little bit of time and effort, and together you accomplish much.
As we enter a new year, let's pause and reflect, taking a moment to appreciate the work that we do here together.
And what could be more festive than a big pile of numbers?
So here is a breakdown of moderation actions performed on History over the past 12 months:
Action Moderators Community¹
----------------------------------------- ---------- ----------
Users suspended² 12 15
Users destroyed³ 198 0
Users deleted 33 0
Users contacted 32 0
User suspensions lifted early 1 0
Tasks reviewed⁴: Suggested Edit queue 305 757
Tasks reviewed⁴: Reopen Vote queue 158 444
Tasks reviewed⁴: Low Quality Posts queue 62 284
Tasks reviewed⁴: Late Answer queue 75 220
Tasks reviewed⁴: First Post queue 417 1,199
Tasks reviewed⁴: Close Votes queue 421 1,908
Tags merged 5 0
Tag synonyms proposed 4 1
Tag synonyms created 7 0
Questions reopened 27 11
Questions protected 20 63
Questions migrated 17 0
Questions flagged⁵ 6 299
Questions closed 363 328
Question flags handled⁵ 231 74
Posts unlocked 3 5
Posts undeleted 20 46
Posts locked 3 41
Posts deleted⁶ 409 1,143
Posts bumped 0 57
Escalations to the Community Manager team 1 0
Comments undeleted 59 0
Comments flagged 319 785
Comments deleted⁷ 3,516 1,987
Comment flags handled 809 295
Answers flagged 37 850
Answer flags handled 805 82
All comments on a post moved to chat 104 0
###Footnotes
¹ "Community" here refers both to the membership of History without diamonds next to their names, and to the automated systems otherwise known as user #-1.
² The system will suspend users under three circumstances: when a user is recreated after being previously suspended, when a user is recreated after being destroyed for spam or abuse, and when a network-wide suspension is in effect on an account.
³ A "destroyed" user is deleted along with all that they had posted: questions, answers, comments. Generally used as an expedient way of getting rid of spam.
⁴ This counts every review that was submitted (not skipped) - so the 2 suggested edits reviews needed to approve an edit would count as 2, the goal being to indicate the frequency of moderation actions. This also applies to flags, etc.
⁵ Includes close flags (but not close or reopen votes).
⁶ This ignores numerous deletions that happen automatically in response to some other action.
⁷ This includes comments deleted by their own authors (which also account for some number of handled comment flags).
Wanna see how these numbers have changed over time? I posted a similar report here last year...
Wishing you all a happy new year...
