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 Movies & TV breaks down by activity over the past 12 months:
Action Moderators Community¹
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Users suspended² 13 23
Users destroyed 44 0
Users deleted 5 0
Users contacted 33 0
User suspensions lifted early 1 0
Tasks reviewed³: Suggested Edit queue 415 2,046
Tasks reviewed³: Reopen Vote queue 123 549
Tasks reviewed³: Low Quality Posts queue 45 1,259
Tasks reviewed³: Late Answer queue 38 635
Tasks reviewed³: First Post queue 97 1,921
Tasks reviewed³: Close Votes queue 235 2,307
Tags merged 45 0
Tag synonyms proposed 14 0
Tag synonyms created 14 0
Questions unprotected 2 1
Questions reopened 58 12
Questions protected 28 31
Questions migrated 65 1
Questions merged 8 0
Questions flagged⁴ 27 909
Questions closed 5,306 507
Question flags handled⁴ 380 556
Posts unlocked 5 14
Posts undeleted 41 63
Posts locked 4,699 113
Posts deleted⁵ 4,523 1,405
Posts bumped 0 592
Escalations to the CM team 4 0
Comments undeleted 18 0
Comments flagged 55 1,045
Comments deleted⁶ 2,454 1,490
Comment flags handled 867 233
Answers flagged 35 918
Answer flags handled 709 244
All comments on a post moved to chat 12 0
Footnotes
¹ "Community" here refers both to the membership of Movies & TV 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...
