Voting down nodes for the pure reason that they were written by someone is stupid. Whether to vote + or - should only depend on the content of the particular node.
I'll admit it - sometimes I do go through the new writeups of a noder or two (or three) to see what kind of new crap they've written. Often I can't bring myself to downvote a number of their nodes and sometimes I end up even upvoting a couple.
The bottom line is - vote for the quality of the writeup, do not vote based on spite.
Cloth - E2 nuke requests are a strong statement. Especially for nodes which are not yours. Voting is democratic.