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 Mi Yodeya breaks down by activity over the past 12 months:
Action Moderators Community¹
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Users suspended² 7 13
Users destroyed 103 0
Users deleted 113 0
Users contacted 11 0
User suspensions lifted early 1 0
Tasks reviewed³: Suggested Edit queue 57 1,481
Tasks reviewed³: Reopen Vote queue 11 1,189
Tasks reviewed³: Low Quality Posts queue 6 1,393
Tasks reviewed³: Late Answer queue 2 364
Tasks reviewed³: First Post queue 1 752
Tasks reviewed³: Close Votes queue 13 2,526
Tags merged 17 0
Tag synonyms proposed 11 7
Tag synonyms created 11 3
Questions unprotected 2 0
Questions reopened 92 53
Questions protected 14 32
Questions migrated 5 0
Questions merged 10 0
Questions flagged⁴ 44 419
Questions closed 711 267
Question flags handled⁴ 273 190
Posts unlocked 4 5
Posts undeleted 35 75
Posts locked 14 177
Posts deleted⁵ 455 1,171
Posts bumped 0 2,504
Escalations to the CM team 8 0
Comments undeleted 205 0
Comments flagged 232 2,006
Comments deleted⁶ 11,327 3,618
Comment flags handled 1,459 779
Bounties canceled 1 0
Answers flagged 210 1,456
Answer flags handled 778 888
All comments on a post moved to chat 49 0
Footnotes
¹ "Community" here refers both to the membership of Mi Yodeya 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...
