It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land...
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
While there certainly are Moderators 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 Salesforce breaks down by activity over the past 12 months:
Action Moderators Community¹ ---------------------------------------- ---------- ---------- Users suspended² 4 10 Users destroyed 16 0 Users deleted 103 0 Users contacted 6 0 Tasks reviewed³: Suggested Edit queue 398 3,585 Tasks reviewed³: Reopen Vote queue 176 680 Tasks reviewed³: Low Quality Posts queue 271 7,177 Tasks reviewed³: Late Answer queue 435 1,825 Tasks reviewed³: First Post queue 521 6,261 Tasks reviewed³: Close Votes queue 11 12,527 Tags merged 7 0 Tag synonyms proposed 3 6 Tag synonyms created 3 0 Tag highlight language set 1 0 Revisions redacted 3 0 Questions reopened 44 14 Questions protected 3 60 Questions migrated 3 0 Questions merged 4 0 Questions flagged⁴ 9 1,282 Questions closed 181 3,123 Question flags handled⁴ 357 934 Posts unlocked 0 3 Posts undeleted 12 323 Posts locked 5 121 Posts deleted⁵ 1,689 7,722 Posts bumped 0 8,718 Escalations to the CM team 6 0 Comments undeleted 16 0 Comments flagged 82 2,924 Comments deleted⁶ 3,383 5,155 Comment flags handled 782 2,224 Answers flagged 84 4,220 Answer flags handled 2,748 1,556 All comments on a post moved to chat 45 0 Footnotes
¹ "Community" here refers both to the membership of Salesforce 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 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...
