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 Motor Vehicle Maintenance & Repair breaks down by activity over the past 12 months:
Action Moderators Community¹
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Users suspended² 0 10
Users destroyed 9 0
Users deleted 1 0
Users contacted 2 0
Tasks reviewed³: Suggested Edit queue 444 320
Tasks reviewed³: Reopen Vote queue 26 24
Tasks reviewed³: Low Quality Posts queue 419 449
Tasks reviewed³: Late Answer queue 318 816
Tasks reviewed³: First Post queue 1,362 2,670
Tasks reviewed³: Close Votes queue 226 632
Tags merged 17 0
Tag synonyms proposed 5 1
Tag synonyms created 6 0
Questions reopened 14 0
Questions protected 30 132
Questions migrated 7 0
Questions merged 2 0
Questions flagged⁴ 15 92
Questions closed 312 65
Question flags handled⁴ 83 24
Posts unlocked 0 4
Posts undeleted 13 23
Posts locked 1 77
Posts deleted⁵ 1,300 742
Posts bumped 0 4,305
Escalations to the CM team 1 0
Comments flagged 120 539
Comments deleted⁶ 460 870
Comment flags handled 318 341
Answers flagged 161 1,989
Answer flags handled 2,019 131
All comments on a post moved to chat 5 0
Footnotes
¹ "Community" here refers both to the membership of Motor Vehicle Maintenance & Repair 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...
