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 3D Printing breaks down by activity over the past 12 months:
Action Moderators Community¹
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Users suspended² 0 12
Users destroyed 59 0
Tasks reviewed³: Suggested Edit queue 218 367
Tasks reviewed³: Reopen Vote queue 2 22
Tasks reviewed³: Low Quality Posts queue 47 183
Tasks reviewed³: Late Answer queue 43 130
Tasks reviewed³: First Post queue 190 493
Tasks reviewed³: Close Votes queue 18 543
Tags merged 1 0
Questions reopened 6 0
Questions protected 1 10
Questions migrated 1 0
Questions flagged⁴ 0 501
Questions closed 23 80
Question flags handled⁴ 76 425
Posts unlocked 0 1
Posts undeleted 27 18
Posts locked 1 86
Posts deleted⁵ 137 229
Posts bumped 0 190
Comments undeleted 19 0
Comments flagged 63 262
Comments deleted⁶ 387 534
Comment flags handled 257 68
Answers flagged 5 488
Answer flags handled 252 241
All comments on a post moved to chat 1 0
Footnotes
¹ "Community" here refers both to the membership of 3D Printing 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...
