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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 2022 (and where did January go, right?) and dive head first into 2023, 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 Economics over the past 12 months:

Action Moderators Community¹
All comments on a post moved to chat 18 0
Answer flags handled 124 33
Answers flagged 5 152
Comment flags handled 97 33
Comments deleted⁷ 563 571
Comments flagged 0 130
Comments undeleted 9 0
Escalations to the Community Manager team 1 0
Posts bumped 0 610
Posts deleted⁶ 97 729
Posts locked 0 34
Posts undeleted 9 21
Posts unlocked 0 11
Question flags handled⁵ 56 19
Questions closed 162 52
Questions flagged⁵ 6 82
Questions migrated 25 0
Questions protected 0 8
Tag synonyms created 2 0
Tag synonyms proposed 1 1
Tags merged 3 0
Tasks reviewed⁴: "Close votes" queue 13 385
Tasks reviewed⁴: "First answers" queue 6 160
Tasks reviewed⁴: "First questions" queue 2 703
Tasks reviewed⁴: "Late answers" queue 0 47
Tasks reviewed⁴: "Low quality posts" queue 5 77
Tasks reviewed⁴: "Reopen votes" queue 2 21
Tasks reviewed⁴: "Suggested edits" queue 40 322
User suspensions lifted early 1 0
Users contacted 20 0
Users destroyed³ 8 0
Users suspended² 14 29

Footnotes

¹ "Community" here refers both to the membership of Economics 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). Community can handle these flags by at least one person voting to close a question that has a close flag.

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 2023! ^_^

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