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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 preceding calendar year.

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 say goodbye to 2021, 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 Computer Science over the past 12 months:

Action Moderators Community¹
Users suspended² 52 33
Users destroyed³ 5 0
Users deleted 32 0
Users contacted 62 0
Tasks reviewed⁴: Suggested Edit queue 152 1,164
Tasks reviewed⁴: Reopen Vote queue 9 79
Tasks reviewed⁴: Low Quality Posts queue 5 217
Tasks reviewed⁴: Late Answer queue 0 235
Tasks reviewed⁴: First questions queue 0 482
Tasks reviewed⁴: First Post queue 0 1,529
Tasks reviewed⁴: First answers queue 0 143
Tasks reviewed⁴: Close Votes queue 12 1,107
Revisions redacted 1 0
Questions unprotected 1 0
Questions reopened 20 1
Questions protected 0 8
Questions migrated 4 0
Questions merged 1 0
Questions flagged⁵ 9 517
Questions closed 722 237
Question flags handled⁵ 249 270
Posts unlocked 0 1
Posts undeleted 47 256
Posts locked 0 19
Posts deleted⁶ 193 3,174
Posts bumped 0 2,915
Escalations to the Community Manager team 7 0
Comments undeleted 13 0
Comments flagged 15 345
Comments deleted⁷ 1,286 2,724
Comment flags handled 280 80
Bounties canceled 1 0
Answers flagged 8 341
Answer flags handled 273 77
All comments on a post moved to chat 20 0

Footnotes

¹ "Community" here refers both to the membership of Computer Science 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 everyone a happy 2022! ^_^

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A megabit rocking thanks to you for the data, Brazilian (you are from Brazil, right?) Blue Bomber!

These numbers are good. For the last year, I and the rest of the moderation team purposely tried to lower our activity here. So let me make some remarks on these numbers (Thank Hub for the tables!)

Action Moderators Community¹ DL's Comments
Users suspended² 52 33 Seems normal.
Users destroyed³ 5 0 Nothing unusual.
Users deleted 32 0
Users contacted 62 0
Tasks reviewed⁴: Suggested Edit queue 152 1,164 The reviewing and editing has always been steady, so this is unsurprising, but good news.
Tasks reviewed⁴: Reopen Vote queue 9 79 I like that reopens are getting more love. If I can do nothing else, I check the reopen queue, because it is very hard to get your question reopened if the ones that closed it are gone, the latter usually being me.
Tasks reviewed⁴: Low Quality Posts queue 5 217 Review queues look good. A 4K factor on most of them is excellent for a site of this size. (I mean, getting 4K rep is far from trivial, I only got that around the time I became a moderator, which took me about 1,5 years
Tasks reviewed⁴: Late Answer queue 0 235
Tasks reviewed⁴: First questions queue 0 482
Tasks reviewed⁴: First Post queue 0 1,529
Tasks reviewed⁴: First answers queue 0 143
Tasks reviewed⁴: Close Votes queue 12 1,107 Well well well. Very good.
Revisions redacted 1 0
Questions unprotected 1 0
Questions reopened 20 1
Questions protected 0 8
Questions migrated 4 0
Questions merged 1 0
Questions flagged⁵ 9 517
Questions closed 722 237 Nice. Only 3.04 factor more mod-closures than community. It seems we're slowly getting there.
Question flags handled⁵ 249 270 Flagging goes fine.
Posts unlocked 0 1
Posts undeleted 47 256 Most undeletions are Q&A pairs about users who want to be sneaky or don't know the Q&A-pair is supposed to help others. Please flag a post if you believe the post in question has been unfairly deleted. Please do not flag comments for this reason, they will be deleted, and if you bring my attention to them, I will probably delete more. Thanks for keeping the site up to date!
Posts locked 0 19
Posts deleted⁶ 193 3,174 These are a lot of deletions, but this is not surprising. CS is a field notorious for easy questions with at times impossible and terribly monstrous answers.
Posts bumped 0 2,915 Good, again good answers tend to need some time
Escalations to the Community Manager team 7 0 We can mostly take care of ourselves, or ask in TL or Teams, I guess. Perhaps the TL activity could also be monitored, but perhaps as a different review (Maybe in the mod dashboard?)
Comments undeleted 13 0
Comments flagged 15 345
Comments deleted⁷ 1,286 2,724
Comment flags handled 280 80
Bounties canceled 1 0
Answers flagged 8 341
Answer flags handled 273 77
All comments on a post moved to chat 20 0
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