<!-- Hello dear editor! If you want to avoid seeing your edit blindly overwritten, first remove this comment. Rev.3 -->It's New Year's Day in [Stack Exchange land](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zulu_Time)...
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](http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/)
While there certainly are [Moderators](https://stackoverflow.blog/2018/11/21/our-theory-of-moderation-re-visited/) 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 Monero over the past 12 months:
Action Moderators Community¹
---------------------------------------- ---------- ----------
Users suspended² 0 4
Tasks reviewed⁴: Suggested Edit queue 48 60
Tasks reviewed⁴: Reopen Vote queue 0 5
Tasks reviewed⁴: Low Quality Posts queue 9 11
Tasks reviewed⁴: Late Answer queue 6 9
Tasks reviewed⁴: First Post queue 20 119
Tasks reviewed⁴: Close Votes queue 5 17
Questions protected 1 4
Questions migrated 1 0
Questions flagged⁵ 0 21
Questions closed 62 1
Question flags handled⁵ 16 5
Posts undeleted 4 3
Posts locked 0 7
Posts deleted⁶ 97 275
Posts bumped 0 307
Comments undeleted 4 0
Comments flagged 0 52
Comments deleted⁷ 34 177
Comment flags handled 3 49
Answers flagged 5 145
Answer flags handled 124 26
###Footnotes
¹ "Community" here refers both to [the membership of Monero](https://monero.stackexchange.com/users) *without* [diamonds next to their names](https://monero.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators), and to the automated systems otherwise known as [user #-1](https://monero.stackexchange.com/users/-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.](https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/88994/what-is-the-difference-between-a-deleted-user-and-a-destroyed-user)
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).
Wanna see how these numbers have changed over time? I posted a similar report here [last year](https://monero.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/203/2018-a-year-in-moderation)...
Wishing you all a happy new year...