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 The Workplace breaks down by activity over the past 12 months:
Action Moderators Community¹
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Users suspended² 14 18
Users destroyed 79 0
Users deleted 17 0
Users contacted 30 0
User suspensions lifted early 1 0
Tasks reviewed³: Suggested Edit queue 47 3,228
Tasks reviewed³: Reopen Vote queue 6 3,466
Tasks reviewed³: Low Quality Posts queue 25 1,573
Tasks reviewed³: Late Answer queue 0 169
Tasks reviewed³: First Post queue 3 4,103
Tasks reviewed³: Close Votes queue 49 9,504
Tags merged 1 0
Tag synonyms proposed 1 1
Tag synonyms created 1 1
Revisions redacted 2 0
Questions unprotected 0 27
Questions reopened 67 189
Questions protected 94 136
Questions migrated 5 1
Questions flagged⁴ 22 3,119
Questions closed 278 2,590
Question flags handled⁴ 915 2,226
Posts unlocked 6 7
Posts undeleted 16 77
Posts locked 6 475
Posts deleted⁵ 344 2,621
Posts bumped 0 8
Escalations to the CM team 12 0
Comments undeleted 240 0
Comments flagged 817 8,230
Comments deleted⁶ 18,131 6,221
Comment flags handled 8,078 969
Answers flagged 61 2,149
Answer flags handled 1,418 792
All comments on a post moved to chat 425 0
Footnotes
¹ "Community" here refers both to the membership of The Workplace 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...
