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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. To that end, here is how the moderation done here on Theoretical Computer Science breaks down by activity over the past 12 months:

                 Action                  Moderators Community¹
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Users suspended²                                  1         10
Users destroyed                                   3          0
Users contacted                                   3          0
Tasks reviewed³: Suggested Edit queue             5        240
Tasks reviewed³: Reopen Vote queue                0         25
Tasks reviewed³: Low Quality Posts queue          0         95
Tasks reviewed³: Late Answer queue                0         67
Tasks reviewed³: First Post queue                 0        783
Tasks reviewed³: Close Votes queue                1        927
Questions reopened                                7          0
Questions protected                               1          1
Questions migrated                               19          0
Questions merged                                  1          0
Questions flagged⁴                                0        344
Questions closed                                 64        239
Question flags handled⁴                          86        258
Posts unlocked                                    1          2
Posts undeleted                                   2        140
Posts locked                                      1         23
Posts deleted⁵                                   40        879
Posts bumped                                      0        111
Comments undeleted                                1          0
Comments flagged                                  0        406
Comments deleted⁶                               262        927
Comment flags handled                           169        237
Answers flagged                                   0         97
Answer flags handled                             69         28
All comments on a post moved to chat              3          0

Footnotes

¹ "Community" here refers both to the membership of Theoretical Computer Science 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...

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  • $\begingroup$ Immoderate. I was banned from cstheory for posting a proof: Every satisfying solution is a valid answer <==> #P=NP. Negating both sides: Not all solutions are answers <==> #P!=NP. $\endgroup$ Jan 8, 2019 at 17:53
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    $\begingroup$ Correct NP programs must be #P programs, else answers get ignored. How can I get unbanned from cstheory? $\endgroup$ Jan 9, 2019 at 15:47

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