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.
@mathemachristian
Not really? If it were factually true that I downvote everything (as it seems factually true that dbzero bans a lot) it’s reasonable to ask what’s going on there.
I do agree the post is slightly loaded, but the initial “Which instances have the most ban-happy moderators?” is probably the better demonstration of that (and slightly defused by ending with a imo more reasonable open-ended question)
It doesn’t seem to be a neutral observation and curious inquiry when viewed from the perspective that lemmy.world threatened to defederate dbzer0 just last week https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/a4b437ae-f00b-454e-bfd2-fcee5dd152e7.webp
Like if I called for your banning last week and now I’m posting stats about your voting behavior painting a certain light that you are much more likely to downvote than others. And then just kind of go, “whats up with that?”