questionsshould downvoting sponsored deals be revisited?   In
order to earn downvotes you have to already have upvoted
something, so this system is in place already.  Asking community
members to justify their votes in the comments is simply
ridiculous. Assume that a downvote is an expression of an
individual's sentiment on the deal. They don't like it. Enough
said. Move along.  If you want to find out why the community is
downvoting something ask the question in the comments thread.
The downvote issue has been beaten to death here, which is why I
downvoted this question.   Negative attention is still
attention. Many of those vendors still get impression and click-
through, irregardless of what drove potential customers to their
products or services.   Here's a search link that will show you
all the questions asked recently about down voting:  Granted,
not every single one is specifically about downvoting, but since
there are nine pages of questions that matched that simple
search string you have plenty of his