Down Votes, and how are you dealing with them?

So we have been getting complaints about the constant down voters.  And it seems to bother a lot of folks who post here and on other channels and blogs. Since disqus has abandoned the house channels and then decided to show the down voters, things have changed.  A small group has decided that their life revolves around down voting.

Also someone has employed a hacker to try and hack several of the new channels.  So how can this be controlled or brought to a minimum?  I will tell you how I've taken a small step.  It may work for some of the folks out there but it may also piss some folks off.

I've got a list of about a dozen lurkers who follow me as if I'm the new messiah.  But thanks to my Ukrainian friends, I've discovered a whole bunch of IP Addresses, usernames, and e-mails.  So I went and banned those. I wasn't surprised to see that a few were business and government IP's.  Those folks will be notified this coming week.

Now when you ban by IP Address, you may end up banning others who may also have that address. Now some have contacted me to just ban folks they don't like.  That I won't do. So let's see what ideas other folks have.