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 Code Review breaks down by activity over the past 12 months:
Action Moderators Community¹
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Users suspended² 6 25
Users destroyed 112 0
Users deleted 1 0
Users contacted 20 0
User review-bans lifted early 2 0
User banned from review 3 0
Tasks reviewed³: Suggested Edit queue 145 3,297
Tasks reviewed³: Reopen Vote queue 47 1,958
Tasks reviewed³: Low Quality Posts queue 120 2,222
Tasks reviewed³: Late Answer queue 11 1,373
Tasks reviewed³: First Post queue 67 7,958
Tasks reviewed³: Close Votes queue 384 10,788
Tags merged 8 0
Tag synonyms proposed 14 0
Tag synonyms created 14 0
Tag highlight language set 4 0
Revisions redacted 15 0
Questions unprotected 4 1
Questions reopened 179 120
Questions protected 69 39
Questions migrated 15 3
Questions merged 8 0
Questions flagged⁴ 46 3,661
Questions closed 2,158 2,638
Question flags handled⁴ 858 2,849
Posts unlocked 6 14
Posts undeleted 38 307
Posts locked 19 229
Posts deleted⁵ 1,404 6,291
Posts bumped 0 3,793
Escalations to the CM team 45 0
Comments undeleted 108 0
Comments flagged 17 2,611
Comments deleted⁶ 6,385 6,014
Comment flags handled 1,404 1,224
Bounties canceled 1 0
Answers flagged 62 2,333
Answer flags handled 1,852 543
All comments on a post moved to chat 18 0
Footnotes
¹ "Community" here refers both to the membership of Code Review 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...
