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 Board & Card Games breaks down by activity over the past 12 months:
Action Moderators Community¹
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Users suspended² 1 6
Users destroyed 7 0
Users contacted 4 0
Tasks reviewed³: Suggested Edit queue 17 1,186
Tasks reviewed³: Reopen Vote queue 1 270
Tasks reviewed³: Low Quality Posts queue 3 792
Tasks reviewed³: Late Answer queue 0 327
Tasks reviewed³: First Post queue 8 1,114
Tasks reviewed³: Close Votes queue 5 971
Tags merged 32 0
Tag synonyms proposed 32 0
Tag synonyms created 33 0
Questions reopened 13 25
Questions protected 0 45
Questions flagged⁴ 2 163
Questions closed 16 298
Question flags handled⁴ 89 76
Posts undeleted 4 16
Posts locked 0 30
Posts deleted⁵ 73 470
Posts bumped 0 148
Escalations to the CM team 2 0
Comments undeleted 1 0
Comments flagged 1 421
Comments deleted⁶ 471 849
Comment flags handled 277 145
Answers flagged 4 770
Answer flags handled 217 557
All comments on a post moved to chat 6 0
Footnotes
¹ "Community" here refers both to the membership of Board & Card Games 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 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.
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...
