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Which instances have the most ban-happy moderators? Analysis inside (piefed.social)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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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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[–] -3 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Thank you for correcting me here, I apologize for spreading misinformation.

@rimu@piefed.social there seems to be a bug in PieFed.social's modlog? I see four entries that all say done by "lemmy.dbzer0.com admin" a week ago citing "Banned account OpenStars", but @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com confirms this is not the case. No "reason" statement is given that I can see, and no community name either (which is why I interpreted that to mean a site ban). I just upvoted a post in YPTB that seemed to work (the color of the vote changed) which points to the likelihood that I am not instance banned from either direction.

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Well the biggest evidence that you're not instance banned, is that I can see you comments and you can see mine

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago*

    I will say, I've argued with db0 a few times and they've kept it professional.

    We may disagree on things, but you're not even close to being on the level of the petty people with the zero-activity communities which only exist for spamming mod logs.

    They are using your instance to host these fake communities though.

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