Ever since I exposed Spiegel for what is probably a self-serving PR move exploiting the Sony hack, I've had at least 4 stalker down voters. It's obvious because they tend to hit at the same time.
Not everyone who downvoted that (admittedly, not well-expressed, insofar as some thought I was accusing Spiegel of causing the Sony hack rather than simply benefitting from it) comment was a Speigeloid. The Spiegeloids are the ones who have been repeatedly downvoting random comments of mine just because I wrote them. (Or, an alternative explanation would be that the Hacker News community has suddenly become much meaner... but I doubt that.) In other words, stalker-downvoting (seeking out someone's comments and, without reading them, downvoting them).
I have no idea when it comes to their personal identities, but I know that I have at least 4 stalker-downvoters. They could be sock puppets of one person. For all I know, it could be Spiegel himself (but I doubt that).
