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As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the past 12 months.

As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange network are moderated somewhat differently to other sites on the web:

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

That doesn't eliminate the need for having moderators altogether, but it does mean that the bulk of moderation work is carried out by regular folks. Every bit of time and effort y'all contribute to the site gives you access to more privileges you can use to help in this effort, all of which produce a cumulative effect that makes a big difference.

So as we welcome 2021, and in keeping with tradition, let us look back at what we accomplished as a community... by looking at some exciting stats. Below is a breakdown of moderation actions performed on Reverse Engineering over the past 12 months:

Action Moderators Community¹
Users suspended² 0 6
Users destroyed³ 1 0
Tasks reviewed⁴: Suggested Edit queue 14 257
Tasks reviewed⁴: Reopen Vote queue 4 16
Tasks reviewed⁴: Low Quality Posts queue 2 106
Tasks reviewed⁴: Late Answer queue 0 140
Tasks reviewed⁴: First Post queue 13 888
Tasks reviewed⁴: Close Votes queue 35 773
Questions reopened 1 0
Questions protected 0 12
Questions migrated 1 0
Questions flagged⁵ 0 150
Questions closed 81 55
Question flags handled⁵ 74 73
Posts undeleted 6 18
Posts locked 0 5
Posts deleted⁶ 132 437
Posts bumped 0 555
Comments undeleted 5 0
Comments flagged 57 22
Comments deleted⁷ 174 222
Comment flags handled 73 6
Answers flagged 1 234
Answer flags handled 206 25
All comments on a post moved to chat 3 0

Footnotes

¹ "Community" here refers both to the membership of Reverse Engineering 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:

A big thank you to Shog9 for writing the queries and script to facilitate fetching and posting this data to all the sites in the network, and to Brian for the subsequent work making the whole thing more user friendly.

Wishing everyone a happy 2021!

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