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 Seasoned Advice breaks down by activity over the past 12 months:
Action Moderators Community¹
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Users suspended² 7 14
Users destroyed 26 0
Users deleted 2 0
Users contacted 21 0
Tasks reviewed³: Suggested Edit queue 224 1,670
Tasks reviewed³: Reopen Vote queue 7 120
Tasks reviewed³: Low Quality Posts queue 38 1,046
Tasks reviewed³: Late Answer queue 10 1,439
Tasks reviewed³: First Post queue 20 2,897
Tasks reviewed³: Close Votes queue 19 920
Tags merged 1 0
Tag synonyms proposed 1 2
Tag synonyms created 1 0
Questions reopened 23 0
Questions protected 5 86
Questions migrated 13 0
Questions merged 5 0
Questions flagged⁴ 9 587
Questions closed 497 133
Question flags handled⁴ 170 426
Posts unlocked 0 2
Posts undeleted 33 21
Posts locked 4 109
Posts deleted⁵ 1,121 740
Posts bumped 0 360
Escalations to the CM team 1 0
Comments undeleted 37 0
Comments flagged 2 1,146
Comments deleted⁶ 1,720 1,178
Comment flags handled 481 667
Answers flagged 100 2,081
Answer flags handled 1,959 222
All comments on a post moved to chat 9 0
Footnotes
¹ "Community" here refers both to the membership of Seasoned Advice 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...
