I did some analysis of the modlog and found this:
Ok, bigger instances ban more often. Not surprising, because they have more communities and more users and more trouble. But hang on, dbzer0 isn’t a very big instance. What happens if we do a ratio of bans vs number of users?
Ok, so lemmy.ml, dbzer0 and pawb are issue an outsized amount of bans for the number of users they have… But surely the number of communities the instance hosts is going to mean they have to ban more? Bans are used to moderate communities, not just to shield their user-base from the outside. Let’s look at the number of bans per community hosted:
Seems like dbzer0 really loves to ban. Even more than the marxists and the furries! What is it about dbzer0 that makes them such prolific banners?
Raw-ish numbers and calculations are in this spreadsheet if anyone wants to make their own charts.
I’m not even a real instance anymore, how did I make the list 😆
But also, you should see the local numbers haha
lemmy=# select count(distinct other_person_id) from mod_ban where mod_person_id in (1, 2,288); count ------- 9792 (1 row)I wonder what happens when I hit 10,000?
You are there because when you ban someone on an instance level, you also ban them on a community level, which inflates your numbers.
DB0 does the same thing.