Typical liberalness. If you can’t get the results you want, you change the rules to suit your needs.
The online comment service Disqus did a similar thing about 3 or 4 years ago. They eliminated the thumbs down arrow. It’s still there and you can push it, but nobody sees the count anymore. I knew it was a liberal action because the liberal comments would get scores and scores, sometimes hundreds of thumbs down votes. I am serious. They would get massacred. They figured they had to do something.
dispense with rule changes...
only alter the press release
Control-LEFT media guidelines
Yahoo got rid of the thumbs up and down this last year as people were voting down anything obama and clinton.
Now it is just a heart symbol if you like and nothing you can choose if you do not like.