If it was a 4chan raid, it wouldn't be the first time it's happened. The last raid they did, they downvoted every comment in an AskReddit thread.
The conspiracy theorist in me wants to scream from the rooftops it's an inside job to prove the upvote | downvote thing was evil and that's why it had to go. The reality is probably more of a 4chan sees weakness and it's having fun on it.
If I take something you really liked as reddit did with the RES upvote downvote option, and removed it and the crowd turned on me, even though I'm telling you it's for your own good, and if I were dishonest, I would turn around and find a way to make you see how bad it is. So all of a sudden you have an influx of people voting up really bad stuff downvoting good stuff and boom, I can now come back to that thread of complainers and show them proof of why they can't have good things. So who's to say it's not admin bots and not 4chan causing the problems, they need proof their decision was the right one and now they have some points to toss at you on why it was a good idea, that's what I'd say if I were a conspiracy theorist. That may come across as rambling, but you'll get the jest of it I think.
Oh wow that's sooooooo menacing. Seriously I don't think that I could ever take their raids seriously. I mean I was a lurker on 4chan during a couple of them and they've never done anything beyond shit posting or downvoting. It's kind of lacking it seems. I want to see them actually DO something... I don't know, maybe it's just me and the fact that I view 4chan as a rabid animal.
I saw a greentext detailing one of their many raids on 9gag. Alpha team was in charge of shitposting and voting for shitposts to get them to the top. Bravo team was in charge of DDoSing. When 9gag tried to retaliate with the same shit, it failed miserably. Shitposting on /b/ is normally just called posting, and a 4chan user gave all of 9gag instructions to DDoS itsself. In the words of the user himself: ">4channer gave 9gag the wrong coordinates." Althoug it isn't too extravagant, it serves its purpose. Kind of like humming in your sibling's ear for a while. You aren't doing anything damaging, just annoying them. And 9gag users are EASILY annoyed.
Haha that's actually kind of funny that they got 9gag to dox itself. One of the last things I heard on Reddit was that 4chan was planning to dox Tumblr, which I think I might stick around long enough to see. Well, it's actually the "SJW" component of Tumblr talking about doing "doxing" 4chan, but I think we both know that it will end the same way as it did with 9gag lol
You must've missed their Imperial Guard raid on Facebook, them taking over naming the new Mountain Dew flavor, them getting 9Gag to DDoS themselves (as already stated), them raiding that Tayor Swift contest so the guy could meet her, and a whole bunch of other stuff. They're like that really annoying sibbling that likes to screw around with you without actually doing any damage.