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 Bitcoin breaks down by activity over the past 12 months:
Action Moderators Community¹
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Users suspended² 1 46
Users destroyed 182 0
Users deleted 1 0
Users contacted 2 0
Tasks reviewed³: Suggested Edit queue 310 947
Tasks reviewed³: Reopen Vote queue 29 106
Tasks reviewed³: Low Quality Posts queue 114 779
Tasks reviewed³: Late Answer queue 136 862
Tasks reviewed³: First Post queue 527 3,826
Tasks reviewed³: Close Votes queue 677 2,570
Tags merged 32 0
Tag synonyms proposed 21 0
Tag synonyms created 22 0
Questions reopened 20 0
Questions protected 1 165
Questions migrated 21 0
Questions merged 6 0
Questions flagged⁴ 18 2,015
Questions closed 1,080 509
Question flags handled⁴ 809 1,224
Posts unlocked 0 4
Posts undeleted 40 65
Posts locked 5 421
Posts deleted⁵ 1,646 3,325
Posts bumped 0 8,647
Comments undeleted 9 0
Comments flagged 1 697
Comments deleted⁶ 269 1,242
Comment flags handled 210 488
Answers flagged 42 4,036
Answer flags handled 2,838 1,240
All comments on a post moved to chat 3 0
Footnotes
¹ "Community" here refers both to the membership of Bitcoin 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...
