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Like everybody around here, I get random downvotes too but I've yet to see anyone harassing that poor downvote button against my previous messages (I would not be surprised if this changed right after I publish this comment).
A few times, I 've seen multiple posts of mine get downvoted in a row in some thread. I supposed it was the action of someone disagreeing with me and wanting to 'punish' me for our diverging opinions but I could not tell, and I don't care much either.
Much more than knowing someone may not like what I said, I'm interested in knowing their reasons why they disagree with what I said, or how I said it (even more so that I'm still learning English, so any remark can help me correct mistakes no matter how unpleasant the remark can be).
Alas, many people seem to think downvoting is enough an argument to say out loud they disagree with someone and to demonstrate how wrong they're. It is not, at least not for me. I don't know about them but I only write what I think, and what I think doesn't change with the direction of the wind, or with the amount of + or - votes it receives. It can change when I'm faced with convincing arguments.
But arguments require a tad more work to share than just hitting the downvote button. Work not that many people seem to be willing to do.