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 Hinduism breaks down by activity over the past 12 months:
Action Moderators Community¹
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Users suspended² 9 5
Users destroyed 81 0
Users deleted 27 0
Users contacted 13 0
User suspensions lifted early 2 0
User banned from review 2 0
Tasks reviewed³: Suggested Edit queue 518 2,151
Tasks reviewed³: Reopen Vote queue 35 822
Tasks reviewed³: Low Quality Posts queue 46 665
Tasks reviewed³: Late Answer queue 37 295
Tasks reviewed³: First Post queue 131 703
Tasks reviewed³: Close Votes queue 219 3,099
Tags merged 8 0
Tag synonyms proposed 4 1
Tag synonyms created 5 0
Revisions redacted 11 0
Questions unprotected 0 6
Questions reopened 33 56
Questions protected 9 101
Questions migrated 4 1
Questions merged 1 0
Questions flagged⁴ 35 496
Questions closed 413 411
Question flags handled⁴ 401 130
Posts unlocked 0 6
Posts undeleted 40 49
Posts locked 6 237
Posts deleted⁵ 427 1,039
Posts bumped 0 276
Escalations to the CM team 6 0
Comments undeleted 70 0
Comments flagged 44 1,451
Comments deleted⁶ 2,950 4,924
Comment flags handled 1,198 297
Answers flagged 87 1,983
Answer flags handled 1,173 897
All comments on a post moved to chat 70 0
Footnotes
¹ "Community" here refers both to the membership of Hinduism 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...
