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 Hardware Recommendations over the past 12 months:
Action Moderators Community1
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Users suspended2 0 7
Users destroyed3 12 0
Users deleted 2 0
Users contacted 2 0
Tasks reviewed?: Suggested Edit queue 114 133
Tasks reviewed?: Reopen Vote queue 10 22
Tasks reviewed?: Low Quality Posts queue 19 11
Tasks reviewed?: Late Answer queue 3 15
Tasks reviewed?: First Post queue 26 901
Tasks reviewed?: Close Votes queue 170 272
Questions reopened 7 2
Questions protected 0 2
Questions migrated 2 0
Questions merged 3 0
Questions flagged? 9 1,431
Questions closed 749 114
Question flags handled? 864 574
Posts undeleted 14 12
Posts locked 3 42
Posts deleted? 345 860
Posts bumped 0 417
Escalations to the Community Manager team 2 0
Comments undeleted 2 0
Comments flagged 0 26
Comments deleted? 63 169
Comment flags handled 14 12
Bounties canceled 2 0
Answers flagged 10 116
Answer flags handled 96 31
Footnotes
1 "Community" here refers both to the membership of Hardware Recommendations 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.
? 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.
? Includes close flags (but not close or reopen votes).
? This ignores numerous deletions that happen automatically in response to some other action.
? 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...
