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.

  • Aatube@kbin.melroy.org
    131·
    2 days ago

    the decision to graph per-community (i’ll call those "commag"s) doesn’t make sense to me. it seems to me like a bad approximation for lifetime total users that doesn’t control for either instance attitudes on commag creation or troll account registration (these usually don’t create communities). i’m unacquainted with pawb but i wouldn’t think they’re very ban-happy, and the fact that these graphs show them as twice as ban-happy per-community as, and a bit more ban happy than ml should tell you this isn’t very good methodology.

    it seems more like dbzer0 and pawb don’t create many communities (but don’t close stale ones either, unlike .world), which makes sense as the ones that do exist are quite focused and targetted to the instance userbase.

    • HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish
      7·
      2 days ago

      I would not be surprised thought is pawb does not draw more intentional trolls. Its like the one out group that is kinda socially acceptable to make light of their thing.

      • Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        6 minutes ago

        I was surprised to find that dbzer0 has 290 communities.

        I guess they have 290 communities which are federated to the instance where you’re collecting these stats; according to dbzer0’s front page they actually have 332 communities. (Also your screenshot shows 1337 communities on lemmy.ml but we actually have 4.74K, and 3919 for .world which actually has 13.1K.)

        • Aatube@kbin.melroy.org
          3·
          1 day ago

          that’s how it is by default for some reason. i haven’t added to me dictionary either and that’s how it shows in libreoffice calc. it seems like it just doesn’t squiggly any “word” with numbers in it.

          flippant antagonism is the worst thing against discourse on the fediverse and we can do our part

      • Aatube@kbin.melroy.org
        103·
        2 days ago

        i don’t see how that has bearing on what i said lol. i argued about not creating many new communities and not closing inactive communities. the last new community i heard of were the two or three replacements for feddit, and just the 41st top community (41st since I estimate the photon pager has 40 items per page by default, and i clicked the top of page 2) has not have posts in over a month, let alone mod actions.