They wanted to introduce an non-native species internationally:

https://lemmy.sdf.org/comment/25278185

And I fought against it, and now they banned me:

https://lemmy.ca/u/qrstuv@lemmy.sdf.org

And these are the serial abusers who did it:

@smorks@lemmy.ca @otter@lemmy.ca @TruckBC@lemmy.ca @Shadow@lemmy.ca @mp3@lemmy.ca @recursive_recursion@lemmy.ca

They have a history of abuse: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/52210561

Hey there bud, I'm sorry this happened to y'a, eh! But I think it's because you tried to export too many downvotes without paying the tariffs!

No clue why they banned you, but the person at the top of the comment thread is doing a bit: "I'm probably not far..." > McMurdo Station, Antarctica > "I expect the banana to still be fresh when it arrives on the next resupply plane in May." And pieguy was playing along, providing a plausible excuse for not shipping to Antarctica. Nobody was planning to ship plants internationally.

Edit to add: lmao I just noticed the original post, $400 for big onion. It's jokes all the way down.

Please don't joke about abuse

Please try to be a little more sensitive to the traumas shared here by victims. We have rules.

You've had a rough month. I'm so sorry this keeps happening to you.

Thank you for your support. Once again, these cronies are bringing shame to canada.

That's not how tariffs work, and you know it.

We have rules.

Legit, I'm not sure what ratio I'd be at, but I pepper in a goodly number of downs nowadays because there's been a shift in off topic posts, and comments that are similarly out of place or just so bad that they merit the mark.

Either that or I'm noticing them more, I dunno. I did take a semi break from lemmy for a while, so maybe that break did shift my awareness of such things.

Way I see it, unless someone is down voting everything, and doing so regularly, that's part of the point of them existing. It's a way of weighting the relative merits of a given post or comment. Is it on topic? Is it useful and fitting for the thread/community? Is it nasty enough to be out of line? There's more reasons to down vote than there are reasons to up, overall.

It's like I'm on Reddit again.

isstkhty

So this is less serial downvoting, and more just an active user with high standards.