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 Programming Puzzles & Code Golf breaks down by activity over the past 12 months:
Action Moderators Community¹
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Users suspended² 8 44
Users destroyed 77 0
Users deleted 7 0
Users contacted 12 0
User suspensions lifted early 2 0
Tasks reviewed³: Suggested Edit queue 87 1,054
Tasks reviewed³: Reopen Vote queue 21 919
Tasks reviewed³: Low Quality Posts queue 118 835
Tasks reviewed³: Late Answer queue 56 503
Tasks reviewed³: First Post queue 147 1,101
Tasks reviewed³: Close Votes queue 21 1,066
Tag synonyms proposed 0 2
Tag synonyms created 0 1
Questions unprotected 18 41
Questions reopened 18 146
Questions protected 0 60
Questions migrated 0 1
Questions flagged⁴ 17 870
Questions closed 136 632
Question flags handled⁴ 351 536
Posts unlocked 3 2
Posts undeleted 33 947
Posts locked 4 125
Posts deleted⁵ 258 2,884
Posts bumped 0 32
Escalations to the CM team 3 0
Comments undeleted 46 0
Comments flagged 9 4,138
Comments deleted⁶ 6,634 12,839
Comment flags handled 1,287 2,860
Bounties canceled 8 0
Answers flagged 49 854
Answer flags handled 558 345
All comments on a post moved to chat 42 0
Footnotes
¹ "Community" here refers both to the membership of Programming Puzzles & Code Golf 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...
