I am struggling trying to find any research or articles scholarly or otherwise on the prevalence of ban happy moderators, it seems when people become admins or moderators of social media channels etc they often end up very ban happy and after many years of seeing this first hand today i decided to see if i could find some research into the psychology of this and why it seems to be the trend that 'power corrupts' how is it that so many people once given the ability to ban become so happy to do so? even for poor reasons or no reasons at all..

i would have thought there would be some articles out there looking into the psychology of this but i cant find a thing…

anyone got any recommendations?

perhaps this is a buried topic due to it making things like twitter look bad.