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 Blender breaks down by activity over the past 12 months:
Action Moderators Community¹
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Users suspended² 2 14
Users destroyed 26 0
Users deleted 11 0
Users contacted 6 0
Tasks reviewed³: Suggested Edit queue 326 2,324
Tasks reviewed³: Reopen Vote queue 103 220
Tasks reviewed³: Low Quality Posts queue 719 2,998
Tasks reviewed³: Late Answer queue 272 1,096
Tasks reviewed³: First Post queue 792 7,222
Tasks reviewed³: Close Votes queue 1,021 6,171
Tag highlight language set 1 0
Revisions redacted 5 0
Questions reopened 35 11
Questions protected 26 39
Questions migrated 3 4
Questions flagged⁴ 10 702
Questions closed 950 1,390
Question flags handled⁴ 210 502
Posts unlocked 0 1
Posts undeleted 98 148
Posts locked 0 41
Posts deleted⁵ 1,239 4,495
Posts bumped 0 8,716
Comments undeleted 4 0
Comments flagged 0 1,766
Comments deleted⁶ 745 4,375
Comment flags handled 329 1,437
Bounties canceled 1 0
Answers flagged 19 2,929
Answer flags handled 2,421 527
All comments on a post moved to chat 3 0
Footnotes
¹ "Community" here refers both to the membership of Blender 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...
