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.

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[–] StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 hours ago

Wow some of y'all are pissy AF over literal data being shown to you. If you think it's wrong then you have free will, put your money where your mouth is and do it better or stop yapping.

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 9 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

What happens if we do a ratio of bans vs number of users?

We get a graph that compares two unrelated values?

Unless this data is purely internal instance user bannings, 'Per capita' has no effective meaning. As the pawb.social case shows: it's all one user with multiple communities who regularly bans waves of sockpuppet brigades. Even the people catching strays or otherwise goes to show it has nothing to do with 'the furries'.

Likewise I wager the SJW bans are effectively one community banning essentially one user who periodically spams accounts.

What is it about dbzer0 that makes them such prolific banners?

That whole painfully public fued against db0 over their stance on zionism may have something to do with it. Like the fake neo-nazi shit being spread against db0 that was just going on this week. It's a wild question to have in light of all that, quite frankly.

[–] PolarKraken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 11 hours ago

Ridiculous on its face to say "weird why db0" in light of exactly what you said, fully fabricated images shared to attack the wider perception of the instance.

Along with the rest of the "I'm doing statistics! With crayons" nonsense.

Fuck this post.

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