I sympathize with what you were dealing with. It's no fun losing points based on no sane rationale, even if XP is pretty much a game. Glad it's sorted out.

I'm not sure that asking for people to publicly post a votebot as an aid to your problem was quite the best solution, though. Aside from being a dubious solution in the first place - countering some of the points lost from deliberate attacks by scattering up votes to random nodes - can you imagine the potential for damage if somebody actually does post a working votebot? Now you'd have even more of these insects coming after you. Why you? Well, you're recognizable, and being a target obviously bothers you. Bothering people is apparently the best thing they can think of to do with their time.

I don't know what a better solution would have been. Maybe another PM to tye, or a different sort of Discussions post, along the lines of "I'm getting hassled by annoying rodents with downvoting scripts. Is there anything we can do to make their lives difficult or miserable in any way?"

But hey, I get angry and post before thinking too. Maybe you posted a similar question already. Maybe you've had several IMs with tye on the subject. Maybe you talked this through in the Chatterbox and decided that this was the best approach to getting the problem solved. It did get solved, after all.