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The programming language community blog Lambda the Ultimate had similar problems some years ago and seems to have emerged successful. Guess having a benevolent dictator editor is important. Here's the relevant discussion from 2006. My own two cents there, that I still stand by today:
The only way to improve the quality of discussions is to filter out the bozos. Don't moderate postings; moderate people.
For me, read-only access to "old LtU" would be more pleasant than read-write access to "new LtU". In other words: I don't think bans are "extreme", my vote is for a lot more bans, and I wouldn't mind being banned myself if this improves the signal-to-noise ratio.
Edit: it seems someone took my words to heart and started downvoting my whole comment history without explanation. Nice! Sadly I can't tell if it's happening to anyone else.
It happens to me regularly - my karma drops by roughly the number of comments I've posted since the last time it happened. It's annoying, but since my overall karma still grows, it's clearly noise.
Also, it's possible the same person is downvoting everybody in this thread; I had a drop of about 10 points today. (I skipped posting any comments this weekend, so my overall comment rate has gotten kind of low lately.)
Perhaps someone is just trying to "win" at karma?