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As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.

As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange network are moderated somewhat differently to other sites on the web:

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

That doesn't eliminate the need for having moderators altogether, but it does mean that the bulk of moderation work is carried out by regular folks. Every bit of time and effort y'all contribute to the site gives you access to more privileges you can use to help in this effort, all of which produce a cumulative effect that makes a big difference.

So as we say goodbye to 2021, let us look back at what we accomplished as a community... by looking at some exciting stats. Below is a breakdown of moderation actions performed on Arduino over the past 12 months:

Action Moderators Community¹
Users suspended² 2 13
Users destroyed³ 24 0
Users deleted 1 0
Users contacted 6 0
User banned from review 1 0
Tasks reviewed⁴: Suggested Edit queue 65 621
Tasks reviewed⁴: Reopen Vote queue 28 223
Tasks reviewed⁴: Low Quality Posts queue 1 478
Tasks reviewed⁴: Late Answer queue 12 340
Tasks reviewed⁴: First questions queue 1 491
Tasks reviewed⁴: First Post queue 0 1,521
Tasks reviewed⁴: First answers queue 2 182
Tasks reviewed⁴: Close Votes queue 18 1,325
Revisions redacted 5 0
Questions reopened 35 9
Questions protected 22 19
Questions migrated 35 0
Questions merged 1 0
Questions flagged⁵ 21 180
Questions closed 1,052 225
Question flags handled⁵ 102 89
Posts unlocked 4 8
Posts undeleted 14 45
Posts locked 4 46
Posts deleted⁶ 403 2,547
Posts bumped 0 2,023
Comments undeleted 43 0
Comments flagged 0 93
Comments deleted⁷ 1,057 1,072
Comment flags handled 79 14
Answers flagged 6 486
Answer flags handled 424 68
All comments on a post moved to chat 26 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 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).

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Wishing everyone a happy 2022! ^_^

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