First time I've seen this behavior. "Vendetta" downvoting possible against one user within a specific thread over many comments....

This thread.

There was some obnoxious whining about downvotes in the edits of the OP (which is me, if you haven't noticed), and that deserves some retribution, I suppose.

The weird thing is, the form is not of downvoting the post, nor of the specific offending comments, but of going through the comments and downvoting everything by OP (me).

Look at the numbers for all the very unrelated comments, and notice the abnormally massive downvotes for each.

I understand we all have comments that are surprisingly poorly received, but there are just too many different, unrelated comments with the same large downvote numbers. And it's specific to this one thread.

My assumption is that one person, multiple persons, or (more likely) one person with multiple accounts, went on a vendetta and downvoted every comment in this thread I posted.

Although I was going to trade my karma in for a boat soon, that's not the issue: I'm just curious as to what this sub's thoughts on a mechanism to explain this observation?