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

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 Coffee over the past 12 months:

                 Action                  Moderators Community¹
---------------------------------------- ---------- ----------
Users suspended²                                  0          4
Users destroyed³                                  3          0
Users contacted                                   1          0
Tasks reviewed⁴: Suggested Edit queue             4         78
Tasks reviewed⁴: Low Quality Posts queue          0         75
Tasks reviewed⁴: Late Answer queue                0        111
Tasks reviewed⁴: First Post queue                 0        202
Tasks reviewed⁴: Close Votes queue                0         27
Questions protected                               0          5
Questions merged                                  1          0
Questions flagged⁵                                0         26
Questions closed                                  4          3
Question flags handled⁵                          12         14
Posts locked                                      1         10
Posts deleted⁶                                   71         42
Posts bumped                                      0         56
Comments flagged                                  0         37
Comments deleted⁷                                 8         49
Comment flags handled                             9         28
Answers flagged                                   3        219
Answer flags handled                            158         64

###Footnotes ¹ "Community" here refers both to the membership of Coffee 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).

Wanna see how these numbers have changed over time? I posted a similar report here last year...

Wishing you all a happy new year...