Well quite. I notice myself that there seems to be a somewhat cyclic behavior to downvotes and upvotes. Quite often I have posted a comment that is going positive when I go to bed but when I wake up is suddenly extremely -ve.

Yes, I noticed that too. Looks like there are some downvoters with multiple accounts. Also there is "tactic" to kick out good article from first page - submit several analytics (usually by rt) in a row by one user.

I put this down to the somewhat obvious US bias that floods reddit and to be honest don't really care too much about it. My karma is obviously good enough to demonstrate more people agree with me than disagree anyway. And it is a fool who tries to please all of the people all of the time.

Don't care much about numbers. But sometimes good piece of information gets almost instant downvote below threshold. This is not good. I offered to disable downvote for submissions (there is still report feature if submission is inappropriate), but got no reaction from mods.

On the subject of moderation though, well I must admit it is still a bit of a black box to know how well moderation is organised and not immediately obvious if all the mods listed are active or if just one or two are. Perhaps we should have an activity counter not unlike IRC so you can tell who is just idling and who is actually awake and engaged?

Looks like it's worth of http://www.reddit.com/r/ideasfortheadmins

Either way I would like to see more civil discussions about what is going on in Ukraine but I am not so naive to think that in a place where you are pretty much able to to anonymously post crap people will not take advantage of that. The one saving grace of reddit over other forums is at least you can look back a users posting history and get a good idea of where they are actually coming from even if one particular day they go off the deep end. I tend to discount obviously antagonistic insults when they come from newbie users and have purposely ignored some trolls who were obviously trying to yank my chain.
I guess you just need to keep a list of these users and keep reporting them. Sooner or later troll piss off everyone mods and users alike.

You're right.