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I got banned from canada's server after protecting delicate ecosystems by refusing to allow unlawful imports of invasive species.
(lemmy.sdf.org)
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
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.