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One thing I can understand about what could influence Vanity's perspective is that sometimes bad actors can make a stronger impression in our memory than good actors. The best admins are quietly working behind the scenes a lot of the time, sometimes you don't even notice they're there because they're not bullying their users. So it can be easier to underestimate their numbers.

Whereas the bad admins, even though I don't think they are a majority (ie 'most') it might FEEL like most are bad because the minority of bad admins might make a stronger impression in our memories when they are encountered, and so even if it was something like only 30% were bad, it would feel like 60% ?

Sort of like... if someone had sore feelings about a particular subgroup of humanity, they might think "all X are Y" or "most X are Y" but it might just be a sub-50% portion of X who are Y, but our memories emphasize those negative memories and perhaps easily forget positive memories, or never make positive memories because good actors are often subtle/humble and not prone to leaping out and forcing others to notice them through explosive bad actions?