TBH, I'm cracking up at how little their downvotes are accomplishing.  They get a few straggler posts here and there, but overall the posts are remaining upvoted. I wonder how they feel that their downvote brigades aren't as effectively silencing people any more.  It used to be once they showed up, a post would easily get into the negative by a few hundred points until the OP deleted it.  Now they OP is upvoted out of spite for their little group so much that they have no actual effect.