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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. And what could be more festive than a big pile of numbers? So here is a breakdown of moderation actions performed on Engineering over the past 12 months:

                 Action                  Moderators Community¹
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Users suspended²                                  0         13
Users destroyed³                                  4          0
Users contacted                                   1          0
Tasks reviewed⁴: Suggested Edit queue           106        358
Tasks reviewed⁴: Reopen Vote queue               42        155
Tasks reviewed⁴: Low Quality Posts queue         33        235
Tasks reviewed⁴: Late Answer queue               23        173
Tasks reviewed⁴: First Post queue               278      1,597
Tasks reviewed⁴: Close Votes queue              153        459
Questions reopened                               16         10
Questions protected                               0         10
Questions migrated                                7          8
Questions flagged⁵                                4        122
Questions closed                                267        196
Question flags handled⁵                          46         80
Posts unlocked                                    0          2
Posts undeleted                                   3         28
Posts locked                                      0         45
Posts deleted⁶                                  121      1,386
Posts bumped                                      0      1,365
Comments undeleted                                2          1
Comments flagged                                  0        293
Comments deleted⁷                               331        702
Comment flags handled                            59        234
Answers flagged                                  12        356
Answer flags handled                            181        187
All comments on a post moved to chat              5          1

Footnotes

¹ "Community" here refers both to the membership of Engineering 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 A "destroyed" user is deleted along with all that they had posted: questions, answers, comments. Generally used as an expedient way of getting rid of spam.

⁴ 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.

⁵ Includes close flags (but not close or reopen votes).

⁶ This ignores numerous deletions that happen automatically in response to some other action.

⁷ This includes comments deleted by their own authors (which also account for some number of handled comment flags).

Further reading:

Wishing you all a happy new year...

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I'm very happy with how much the community as a whole has done. We moderators have not been required to do an excessive amount to keep the site moving along smoothly.

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