Dispatch downvoting

[Peaceful Bosnia and Herzegovina]

Can dispatch be downvoted so much that it will show negative number of upvotes like -50 or -178 etc?

[Borovan entered the region as he]

No

[Nouveau Quebecois]

No

Why not?

[Borovan entered the region as he]

No

Why not?

I upvoted a dispatch but it stayed at one. So there was more downvotes than upvotes. So it's impossible to show negative.

[Nouveau Quebecois]

Why not?

I upvoted a dispatch but it stayed at one. So there was more downvotes than upvotes. So it's impossible to show negative.

Do you know

Why not?

[Borovan entered the region as he]

I upvoted a dispatch but it stayed at one. So there was more downvotes than upvotes. So it's impossible to show negative.

Do you know

Why not?

Might be possible that it's not to lower self esteem for unpopular people from cliques. If you look at most social media, most have it that you can't have it that you dislike something.

I guess you can try experiment with it if you have hundred downvotes from people but there's probably examples of unpopular dispatches like this one that if you were to upvote it it stays at one.
https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1142052

Also this was mentioned the same in technical that someone can try to upvote something but stayed at one.
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