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 Drupal Answers breaks down by activity over the past 12 months:
Action Moderators Community¹
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Users suspended² 5 18
Users destroyed 800 0
Users deleted 97 0
Users contacted 15 0
User suspensions lifted early 1 0
Tasks reviewed³: Suggested Edit queue 247 2,713
Tasks reviewed³: Reopen Vote queue 42 1,044
Tasks reviewed³: Low Quality Posts queue 0 1,202
Tasks reviewed³: Late Answer queue 0 1,214
Tasks reviewed³: First Post queue 1 3,180
Tasks reviewed³: Close Votes queue 164 4,599
Tags merged 217 0
Revisions redacted 14 0
Questions reopened 87 5
Questions protected 18 29
Questions migrated 4 0
Questions merged 9 0
Questions flagged⁴ 137 12,538
Questions closed 1,976 527
Question flags handled⁴ 1,051 11,624
Posts unlocked 0 1
Posts undeleted 56 144
Posts locked 7 2,103
Posts deleted⁵ 1,029 7,853
Posts bumped 0 8,728
Escalations to the CM team 9 0
Comments undeleted 7 0
Comments flagged 0 1,998
Comments deleted⁶ 1,768 2,991
Comment flags handled 600 1,398
Bounties canceled 2 0
Answers flagged 29 1,718
Answer flags handled 1,270 477
All comments on a post moved to chat 29 0
Footnotes
¹ "Community" here refers both to the membership of Drupal Answers 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...
