I said it from the beginning and I do not mind chiming in with you again, Tracey. I agree with you and I see absolutely no good reason to have a negative vote, other than to spread bad feelings and to allow mean spiritedness to have an opportunity. If the question is, was this a good, informative, helpful, post for you? Then providing a way to respond "yes" should be sufficient.
I'm glad to see so many have responded against the negative feature, perhaps now it will be obvious that for the majority, it does not work.