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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. And what could be more festive than a big pile of numbers? So here is a breakdown of moderation actions performed on SharePoint over the past 12 months:

                 Action                  Moderators Community¹
---------------------------------------- ---------- ----------
Users suspended²                                  2          5
Users destroyed³                                  6          0
Users deleted                                     1          0
Users contacted                                   4          0
Tasks reviewed⁴: Suggested Edit queue           149      2,142
Tasks reviewed⁴: Reopen Vote queue               57        203
Tasks reviewed⁴: Low Quality Posts queue        307      2,995
Tasks reviewed⁴: Late Answer queue              120      1,331
Tasks reviewed⁴: First Post queue               170      3,665
Tasks reviewed⁴: Close Votes queue              298      1,508
Tag synonyms proposed                             0          6
Revisions redacted                                1          0
Questions reopened                               24          3
Questions protected                               2         27
Questions merged                                  2          0
Questions flagged⁵                                8        324
Questions closed                                353        203
Question flags handled⁵                         164        168
Posts undeleted                                   8         64
Posts locked                                      1         42
Posts deleted⁶                                  792      3,526
Posts bumped                                      0      8,614
Comments undeleted                                3          0
Comments flagged                                  1      2,329
Comments deleted⁷                               172      3,048
Comment flags handled                            91      2,239
Answers flagged                                  99      2,571
Answer flags handled                          1,993        677
All comments on a post moved to chat              5          0

Footnotes

¹ "Community" here refers both to the membership of SharePoint 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 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.

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).

Further reading:

Wishing you all a happy new year...

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