a thought just occured to me:
They spam this site with spam, which provokes people to down vote it. The spam has been increasing, the more they spam the more the users down vote. Down votes are limited, this is an attack on the limit of down votes by attempting to deplete everyone's capacity to down vote. With new account creation, and nearly daily spam attacks, this is depleting the down vote capacity on a regular basis.
The goal would seem to be once the down votes are depleted, they can argue their posts are not spam because they are not heavily down voted like they are now. As for what they would ask to change, I have no idea, but this seems to be their attack vector.
That's a good observation. The motive checks out. some good poalerbear thinkin' ^ here
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