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 Cryptography over the past 12 months:
Action Moderators Community¹
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Users suspended² 4 14
Users destroyed³ 9 0
Users deleted 5 0
Users contacted 14 0
Tasks reviewed⁴: Suggested Edit queue 199 1,563
Tasks reviewed⁴: Reopen Vote queue 52 192
Tasks reviewed⁴: Low Quality Posts queue 16 182
Tasks reviewed⁴: Late Answer queue 14 197
Tasks reviewed⁴: First Post queue 62 2,353
Tasks reviewed⁴: Close Votes queue 490 1,866
Tags merged 6 0
Tag synonyms proposed 3 0
Tag synonyms created 3 0
Questions unprotected 1 0
Questions reopened 54 0
Questions protected 7 11
Questions migrated 190 0
Questions merged 7 0
Questions flagged⁵ 13 587
Questions closed 1,181 201
Question flags handled⁵ 331 267
Posts unlocked 0 34
Posts undeleted 7 99
Posts locked 5 233
Posts deleted⁶ 266 2,132
Posts bumped 0 435
Escalations to the Community Manager team 3 0
Comments undeleted 18 0
Comments flagged 24 850
Comments deleted⁷ 1,680 3,219
Comment flags handled 164 710
Bounties canceled 1 0
Answers flagged 33 444
Answer flags handled 425 52
All comments on a post moved to chat 38 0
Footnotes
¹ "Community" here refers both to the membership of Cryptography 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:
Wanna see how these numbers have changed over time? I posted a similar report here last year: 2018: a year in moderation...
You can also check out this report on other sites
- Or peruse detailed information on the number of questions closed and reopened across all sites
Wishing you all a happy new year...
Questions closed (mods) 1,181 (community) 201- I'm pretty sure that the mods didn't close that many questions without the community casting at least one close vote. OT: very glad you're still around, Shog9 - thanks for taking the time! $\endgroup$ – Maarten Bodewes♦ Jan 19 '20 at 15:29closed:1 deleted:all) and check votes from the timeline. $\endgroup$ – Shog9 Jan 19 '20 at 15:32