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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. And what could be more festive than a big pile of numbers? So here is a breakdown of moderation actions performed on French Language over the past 12 months:

                 Action                  Moderators Community¹
---------------------------------------- ---------- ----------
Users suspended²                                  4          8
Users destroyed³                                  2          0
Users contacted                                   9          0
Tasks reviewed⁴: Suggested Edit queue            24        402
Tasks reviewed⁴: Reopen Vote queue                0         74
Tasks reviewed⁴: Low Quality Posts queue          1        256
Tasks reviewed⁴: Late Answer queue                0        172
Tasks reviewed⁴: First Post queue                 0        675
Tasks reviewed⁴: Close Votes queue                5        380
Tags merged                                       2          0
Questions reopened                               10          3
Questions protected                               0         11
Questions migrated                                1          0
Questions merged                                  1          0
Questions flagged⁵                                1         98
Questions closed                                113         72
Question flags handled⁵                          45         54
Posts undeleted                                  14         49
Posts locked                                      1         23
Posts deleted⁶                                  188        351
Posts bumped                                      0         62
Comments undeleted                               21          0
Comments flagged                                  5        163
Comments deleted⁷                             1,252      2,427
Comment flags handled                           126         42
Answers flagged                                  13        484
Answer flags handled                            365        132
All comments on a post moved to chat             30          0

Footnotes

¹ "Community" here refers both to the membership of French Language 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 you all a happy new year...

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I feel like this is missing something: an hint of appreciation for what Gilles and Stéphane did since the beginning of the site. So I'll add it myself here:

Thank you Gilles and Stéphane.

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