It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land...
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. To that end, here is how the moderation done here on History breaks down by activity over the past 12 months:
Action Moderators Community¹
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Users suspended² 9 18
Users destroyed 163 0
Users deleted 2 0
Users contacted 33 0
Tasks reviewed³: Suggested Edit queue 328 904
Tasks reviewed³: Reopen Vote queue 118 373
Tasks reviewed³: Low Quality Posts queue 30 244
Tasks reviewed³: Late Answer queue 75 278
Tasks reviewed³: First Post queue 261 1,419
Tasks reviewed³: Close Votes queue 312 1,893
Tags merged 5 0
Tag synonyms proposed 4 1
Tag synonyms created 8 0
Revisions redacted 2 0
Questions unprotected 0 1
Questions reopened 38 7
Questions protected 44 40
Questions migrated 32 0
Questions flagged⁴ 2 457
Questions closed 351 341
Question flags handled⁴ 352 107
Posts unlocked 0 5
Posts undeleted 36 40
Posts locked 0 72
Posts deleted⁵ 582 855
Posts bumped 0 92
Escalations to the CM team 1 0
Comments undeleted 85 0
Comments flagged 416 802
Comments deleted⁶ 3,395 1,926
Comment flags handled 974 244
Answers flagged 26 989
Answer flags handled 860 155
All comments on a post moved to chat 88 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 This counts every review that was submitted (not skipped) - so the 3 suggested edits reviews needed to approve an edit would count as 3, the goal being to indicate the frequency of moderation actions. This also applies to flags, etc.
⁴ Includes close flags (but not close or reopen votes).
⁵ This ignores numerous deletions that happen automatically in response to some other action.
⁶ This includes comments deleted by their own authors (which also account for some number of handled comment flags).
Wishing you all a happy new year...
