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 Travel breaks down by activity over the past 12 months:
Action Moderators Community¹
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Users suspended² 4 13
Users destroyed 81 0
Users deleted 4 0
Users contacted 12 0
Tasks reviewed³: Suggested Edit queue 165 3,044
Tasks reviewed³: Reopen Vote queue 73 1,628
Tasks reviewed³: Low Quality Posts queue 129 5,927
Tasks reviewed³: Late Answer queue 99 1,698
Tasks reviewed³: First Post queue 28 8,165
Tasks reviewed³: Close Votes queue 789 10,525
Tags merged 13 0
Tag synonyms proposed 8 2
Tag synonyms created 8 0
Revisions redacted 15 0
Questions unprotected 4 2
Questions reopened 93 47
Questions protected 39 340
Questions migrated 145 0
Questions merged 2 0
Questions flagged⁴ 43 3,058
Questions closed 1,218 2,638
Question flags handled⁴ 697 2,404
Posts unlocked 4 23
Posts undeleted 69 84
Posts locked 19 620
Posts deleted⁵ 1,681 3,232
Posts bumped 0 151
Comments undeleted 44 0
Comments flagged 10 2,406
Comments deleted⁶ 4,446 4,178
Comment flags handled 1,640 776
Bounties canceled 44 0
Answers flagged 143 9,048
Answer flags handled 5,419 3,772
All comments on a post moved to chat 150 0
Footnotes
¹ "Community" here refers both to the membership of Travel 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 2 suggested edits reviews needed to approve an edit would count as 2, 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...
