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 Islam breaks down by activity over the past 12 months:
Action Moderators Community¹
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Users suspended² 7 11
Users destroyed 83 0
Users deleted 32 0
Users contacted 15 0
Tasks reviewed³: Suggested Edit queue 214 315
Tasks reviewed³: Reopen Vote queue 42 77
Tasks reviewed³: Low Quality Posts queue 132 431
Tasks reviewed³: Late Answer queue 156 432
Tasks reviewed³: First Post queue 542 1,445
Tasks reviewed³: Close Votes queue 621 1,284
Tags merged 1 0
Tag synonyms proposed 2 1
Tag synonyms created 1 0
Questions reopened 11 0
Questions protected 10 108
Questions migrated 3 0
Questions flagged⁴ 22 356
Questions closed 996 112
Question flags handled⁴ 270 108
Posts unlocked 1 2
Posts undeleted 11 49
Posts locked 1 217
Posts deleted⁵ 836 1,916
Posts bumped 0 1,833
Escalations to the CM team 3 0
Comments undeleted 32 0
Comments flagged 168 397
Comments deleted⁶ 1,642 887
Comment flags handled 289 276
Answers flagged 465 1,402
Answer flags handled 1,508 359
All comments on a post moved to chat 4 0
Footnotes
¹ "Community" here refers both to the membership of Islam 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...
