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 Role-playing Games over the past 12 months:
Action Moderators Community¹
----------------------------------------- ---------- ----------
Users suspended² 14 25
Users destroyed³ 165 0
Users deleted 1 0
Users contacted 29 0
Tasks reviewed⁴: Suggested Edit queue 66 2,253
Tasks reviewed⁴: Reopen Vote queue 13 3,261
Tasks reviewed⁴: Low Quality Posts queue 13 2,376
Tasks reviewed⁴: Late Answer queue 9 1,095
Tasks reviewed⁴: First Post queue 23 3,401
Tasks reviewed⁴: Close Votes queue 34 5,486
Tags merged 24 0
Tag synonyms proposed 86 9
Tag synonyms created 64 2
Revisions redacted 1 0
Questions unprotected 27 4
Questions reopened 234 449
Questions protected 41 182
Questions migrated 6 5
Questions merged 5 0
Questions flagged⁵ 8 935
Questions closed 469 1,607
Question flags handled⁵ 396 546
Posts unlocked 6 14
Posts undeleted 52 260
Posts locked 37 202
Posts deleted⁶ 509 2,460
Posts bumped 0 100
Escalations to the Community Manager team 11 0
Comments undeleted 655 0
Comments flagged 177 7,534
Comments deleted⁷ 20,276 12,204
Comment flags handled 6,312 1,399
Bounties canceled 1 0
Answers flagged 102 2,921
Answer flags handled 1,335 1,688
All comments on a post moved to chat 477 0
Footnotes
¹ "Community" here refers both to the membership of Role-playing Games 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...
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