That does occasionally happen, but there must be thousands of people clicking the up or down arrows for every person willing to do chilling effect e-stalking e-blackmail type stuff to intimidate people.

I'm just saying public participation in conversation moderating is much like public participation in voting where its a pretty extreme power law where most people lurk or barely themselves to click a button, but a very small minority will put in huge efforts for their cause.

There are some tools which will log-in and scramble every comment to raNDOM WORDS - then delete the comment...

That's most likely from the RES tagging feature. They may have had you tagged beforehand, or they may have downloaded one of the dozens of taglists floating around, after which they can simply click the tag and arrive at one of your most egregious posts.