It's New Year's Day in [Stack Exchange land](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zulu_Time)...
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](http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/)
While there certainly are [Moderators](https://stackoverflow.blog/2018/11/21/our-theory-of-moderation-re-visited/) 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 Interpersonal Skills breaks down by activity over the past 12 months:
Action Moderators Community¹
---------------------------------------- ---------- ----------
Users suspended² 40 21
Users destroyed 150 0
Users deleted 13 0
Users contacted 74 0
Tasks reviewed³: Suggested Edit queue 186 2,096
Tasks reviewed³: Reopen Vote queue 74 2,113
Tasks reviewed³: Low Quality Posts queue 83 8,376
Tasks reviewed³: Late Answer queue 8 178
Tasks reviewed³: First Post queue 49 3,302
Tasks reviewed³: Close Votes queue 34 4,005
Tags merged 3 0
Tag synonyms proposed 2 4
Tag synonyms created 4 1
Questions unprotected 7 13
Questions reopened 28 179
Questions protected 31 184
Questions migrated 11 2
Questions flagged⁴ 36 1,278
Questions closed 351 1,063
Question flags handled⁴ 785 529
Posts unlocked 9 10
Posts undeleted 65 107
Posts locked 19 277
Posts deleted⁵ 765 2,565
Escalations to the CM team 14 0
Comments undeleted 239 0
Comments flagged 158 13,430
Comments deleted⁶ 21,885 4,324
Comment flags handled 11,452 2,136
Answers flagged 426 5,397
Answer flags handled 1,982 3,841
All comments on a post moved to chat 106 0
### Footnotes
¹ "Community" here refers both to [the membership of Interpersonal Skills](https://interpersonal.stackexchange.com/users) *without* [diamonds next to their names](https://interpersonal.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators), and to the automated systems otherwise known as [user #-1](https://interpersonal.stackexchange.com/users/-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 3 suggested edits reviews needed to approve an edit would count as 3, 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...