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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 Mathematics over the past 12 months:

Action Moderators Community¹
Users suspended² 415 126
Users destroyed³ 108 0
Users deleted 421 0
Users contacted 734 0
User suspensions lifted early 9 0
User banned from review 12 0
Tasks reviewed⁴: Suggested Edit queue 57 50,727
Tasks reviewed⁴: Reopen Vote queue 21 25,284
Tasks reviewed⁴: Low Quality Posts queue 67 68,637
Tasks reviewed⁴: Late Answer queue 11 9,813
Tasks reviewed⁴: First questions queue 2 24,189
Tasks reviewed⁴: First Post queue 19 41,154
Tasks reviewed⁴: First answers queue 0 8,028
Tasks reviewed⁴: Close Votes queue 1,165 109,757
Tags merged 16 0
Tag synonyms proposed 9 2
Tag synonyms created 16 1
Revisions redacted 34 0
Questions unprotected 1 25
Questions reopened 46 1,076
Questions protected 2 226
Questions migrated 31 53
Questions merged 30 0
Questions flagged⁵ 54 29,420
Questions closed 3,090 42,286
Question flags handled⁵ 3,321 25,637
Posts unlocked 9 56
Posts undeleted 219 10,095
Posts locked 94 367
Posts deleted⁶ 1,417 111,125
Posts bumped 0 8,204
Escalations to the Community Manager team 68 0
Comments undeleted 188 0
Comments flagged 95 10,366
Comments deleted⁷ 21,377 102,471
Comment flags handled 7,770 2,699
Bounties canceled 29 0
Answers flagged 132 15,713
Answer flags handled 3,681 12,163
All comments on a post moved to chat 421 0

Footnotes

¹ "Community" here refers both to the membership of Mathematics 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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This is the difference from 2020 to 2021, computed as percentage increase, $$\frac{\textsf{newstat}-\textsf{oldstat}}{\textsf{oldstat}}\%.$$

Action Moderators Community
Users suspended 41 % 22 %
Users destroyed -47 % ----
Users deleted 4 % ----
Users contacted 74 % ----
User suspensions lifted early 80 % ----
User banned from review -67 % ----
Suggested Edit 0 % -29 %
Reopen Vote queue 75 % -13 %
Low Quality Posts queue 294 % -10 %
Late Answer queue 83 % -5 %
First questions queue ---- ----
First Post queue 138 % -38 %
First answers queue ---- ----
Close Votes queue -20 % -16 %
Tags merged 33 % ----
Tag synonyms proposed 50 % -60 %
Tag synonyms created 167 % 0 %
Revisions redacted 1600 % ----
Questions unprotected ----- 213 %
Questions reopened -36 % 26 %
Questions protected -50 % 28 %
Questions migrated 29 % -26 %
Questions merged -51 % ----
Questions flagged 35 % 33 %
Questions closed 10 % 1 %
Question flags handled -4 % 38 %
Posts unlocked -53 % -59 %
Posts undeleted -20 % -22 %
Posts locked -47 % -20 %
Posts deleted -8 % -2 %
Posts bumped 0 % -4 %
Escalations to the Community Manager team 21 % ----
Comments undeleted 74 % ----
Comments flagged 53 % -6 %
Comments deleted 28 % -9 %
Comment flags handled -10 % 9 %
Bounties canceled 123 % ---
Answers flagged -16 % 19 %
Answer flags handled 11 % 21 %
All comments on a post moved to chat 212 % ---
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    $\begingroup$ Nice comparison; it gives us a nice year-to-to-year comparison. Thanks, @Pedro. I'm pleased that it seems to show a significant gain in "community" participation. $\endgroup$
    – amWhy
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    $\begingroup$ For monkey brains like me, colours and bar charts (hopefully I didn't mess something up) $\endgroup$ Jan 13 at 4:25

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