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 Aviation breaks down by activity over the past 12 months:
Action Moderators Community¹
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Users suspended² 10 15
Users destroyed 85 0
Users deleted 9 0
Users contacted 22 0
User suspensions lifted early 1 0
Tasks reviewed³: Suggested Edit queue 163 2,260
Tasks reviewed³: Reopen Vote queue 79 747
Tasks reviewed³: Low Quality Posts queue 18 4,220
Tasks reviewed³: Late Answer queue 319 582
Tasks reviewed³: First Post queue 4 2,597
Tasks reviewed³: Close Votes queue 1 4,968
Tags merged 9 0
Tag synonyms proposed 5 3
Tag synonyms created 7 0
Questions unprotected 0 2
Questions reopened 69 28
Questions protected 16 69
Questions migrated 15 0
Questions flagged⁴ 12 710
Questions closed 120 978
Question flags handled⁴ 196 526
Posts unlocked 2 2
Posts undeleted 12 54
Posts locked 1 115
Posts deleted⁵ 358 1,607
Posts bumped 0 419
Escalations to the CM team 3 0
Comments undeleted 48 0
Comments flagged 15 1,036
Comments deleted⁶ 2,401 2,965
Comment flags handled 828 223
Answers flagged 252 2,710
Answer flags handled 1,092 1,870
All comments on a post moved to chat 34 0
Footnotes
¹ "Community" here refers both to the membership of Aviation 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...
