Ive been in the middle of all this (/r/nolibswatch) the downvote bot was first used to give user cowzgoesmoo upvotes and the enoughpaulspam mods down votes, interesting to note the downvotes were also aimed at user crackduck. The eps mods know cowz and crackduck have had their differences so they used that to sell the narrative that it was cowz controling the bot. I cross paths with cowz a lot i have even been the middleman between cowz and crackduck, they are on the same side against eps, cowz would not want to silence crackducks comments against them. This is my take on it and again check out /r/nolibswatch for more info