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.
Yes, you can get banned by simply downvoting slop.
No, you get banned for going into a community and downvoting for everything in it instead of avoiding it and blocking it.
Lies from .world yet again.
Your truth is the truthest.
Numbers speak for themselves.
Yeah, the hitpiece by someone who got butthurt about being wrong that doesn’t account for the harassment an instance gets is NuMbErs.
Wanna tell me about how data says you’re justified in your beliefs about people too?
Yep, you don’t need no gosh darn numbers, you know the truth!
Yep, more than you do. Keep stuffing numbers in your head that are cherry picked. Wanna tell me how Tobacoo is healthy for me too?
Only your, verified™, numbers are good. These are bad, bad numbers. The worst. And it’s the truth.