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> The bot posts every 12 hours, so each datapoint is the recorded number of /r/all removals in each post, or every 12 hours. The lines between the datapoints represent the change between those two datapoints, which makes it easier to see the trend.[1]

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/RedditMinusMods/comments/mbsafj/her...

I've read this 5 times and I'm having a really hard time parsing what he's trying to say here. Can anyone help out?

the methodolgy of the bot that posts the deleted posts every 12 hours is explained here: https://old.reddit.com/r/RedditMinusMods/wiki/index

the graph just shows the number of posts that this bot has found "missing" each 12 hours

it's labelled as number of removals, I think it's an absolute number of removed posts per day(?)

edit: sibling comment points out it's per 12 hour period, not per day

edit: as for the cap of 50 - it seems that is the number of posts shown on a first page of r/all (using old reddit), so it seems that means that all 50 slots "should" be filled with posts that have been removed

It's showing 50 of the top 50 posts to /r/all in each 12 hour window have been removed.

It's the results of the bot that generates posts to /r/RedditMinusMods/ tracking such deletes that looks like https://imgur.com/21qaLjx .