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 Arduino breaks down by activity over the past 12 months:
Action Moderators Community¹
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Users suspended² 3 8
Users destroyed 72 0
Users deleted 7 0
Users contacted 7 0
User suspensions lifted early 1 0
Tasks reviewed³: Suggested Edit queue 36 1,491
Tasks reviewed³: Reopen Vote queue 0 1,003
Tasks reviewed³: Low Quality Posts queue 8 2,175
Tasks reviewed³: Late Answer queue 0 874
Tasks reviewed³: First Post queue 0 4,185
Tasks reviewed³: Close Votes queue 0 6,622
Tags merged 1 0
Revisions redacted 1 0
Questions unprotected 0 1
Questions reopened 16 26
Questions protected 1 35
Questions migrated 37 0
Questions merged 5 0
Questions flagged⁴ 6 719
Questions closed 511 1,488
Question flags handled⁴ 142 583
Posts unlocked 0 11
Posts undeleted 4 70
Posts locked 3 169
Posts deleted⁵ 594 2,640
Posts bumped 0 5,281
Comments undeleted 1 0
Comments flagged 0 597
Comments deleted⁶ 1,192 2,116
Comment flags handled 175 422
Answers flagged 2 2,130
Answer flags handled 1,582 550
All comments on a post moved to chat 32 0
Footnotes
¹ "Community" here refers both to the membership of Arduino 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...
