Of course liking a person is separate from evaluation of their comments -- at least I hope people here act that way! What I dispute is this insinuation that my treatment of you is evidence of having built up some personal or emotional "dislike" of you, as opposed to a clear-headed reaction to the merit of your posts.

I also strongly dispute your suggestion of symmetry: I do not use the voting system as a tool to "get back" at you during disputes, while the evidence suggests that you do start modding me down even when your objectivity has clearly been compromised and therefore when your voting is disinformative to others.

Yes, yes, there's no rule against modding down someone you just got into a flamewar with or who offended your honor and I'm a masochist for employing such restraint, blah blah blah. Nevertheless, I am clearly treating you better than you treat me, so if anything, you should be appreciative of my actions and not characterize them as some kind of mistreatment.