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.
I am also sure DraconicNEO has at least an alt that has been active in the days ghe main account showed no activity and when the main is active the alt is inactive and it is for multiple day long periods.
Also the rhetoric and going overboard with personal attacks is the same too.
But yeah, they can be very petty. They banned me from their dead communities once, then when beefing with me, they unbanned me from their communities only to ban me immediately again. Like what was the point?
They were bumping the bans to the top of your mod history so their nonsense is the first thing anyone reads.