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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[–] Paragone@lemmy.world -3 points 7 hours ago

Nobody else heard Saddam had nukes..

He did have nerve-gas ( sarin ) bombs, & some troops died when they destroyed those the wrong way..

Nerve-gas is in the category of weapons of mass-destruction..

Back when that war was happening, Radio Netherlands ( shortwave ) interviewed a weapons-inspector who'd been in Iraq, & they stated, openly, that there was no evidence for Iraq having any weapons of mass-destruction.

( the sarin stuff was discovered later, iirc )

It was all lie-of-convenience, but on ALL sides.

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