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I did some analysis of the modlog and found this:

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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?

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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:

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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.

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[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Does this take into account the account age when they got banned? You can clearly see that older instances are on the higher level. Mate really, this shit ain't easy, and jumping to publish with flawed methodology like this just comes off as a hit piece

[–] Goferking0@ttrpg.network 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It really just looks like pulling all account ages not the ones getting banned. Which makes perfect sense when trying to make other instances look worse to discredit one's.

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Nah, WHERE ml.action = 'ban_user' but that isn’t showing the age as of the ban, but the age as of now.

[–] Goferking0@ttrpg.network 1 points 14 hours ago

that isn’t showing the age as of the ban

Exactly