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 WordPress Development breaks down by activity over the past 12 months:
Action Moderators Community¹
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Users suspended² 5 16
Users destroyed 503 0
Users deleted 13 0
Users contacted 12 0
Tasks reviewed³: Suggested Edit queue 1,357 2,174
Tasks reviewed³: Reopen Vote queue 215 178
Tasks reviewed³: Low Quality Posts queue 527 856
Tasks reviewed³: Late Answer queue 624 1,091
Tasks reviewed³: First Post queue 263 9,680
Tasks reviewed³: Close Votes queue 1,766 10,173
Tags merged 11 0
Tag synonyms proposed 6 0
Tag synonyms created 6 0
Revisions redacted 3 0
Questions reopened 35 0
Questions protected 7 100
Questions migrated 49 4
Questions flagged⁴ 61 3,713
Questions closed 3,349 1,175
Question flags handled⁴ 898 2,876
Posts unlocked 0 14
Posts undeleted 33 244
Posts locked 1 487
Posts deleted⁵ 2,058 10,779
Posts bumped 0 8,732
Comments undeleted 13 0
Comments flagged 5 3,441
Comments deleted⁶ 1,870 4,813
Comment flags handled 869 2,577
Answers flagged 29 3,385
Answer flags handled 2,907 507
All comments on a post moved to chat 3 0
Footnotes
¹ "Community" here refers both to the membership of WordPress Development 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...
