Change Kudos to Likes?

[festive1]

I wish we could give Kudon'ts. I miss the ability to neg rep people. I hate the fact that systems usually allow only like or ignore. I understand that many don't want hurt feeilngs, but why not? Who has the right not to be offended? When someone says something dumb I should have an easy way to express distaste. I wish there was a dislike button on Facebook! We were warned of speech tweaking to only allow for positive ideas to be shared with newspeak and the constant redaction of negative words from the english language in the book 1984. From the wiki on newspeak:

words with negative meanings are removed as redundant, so "bad" becomes "ungood"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak

So I can't kudon't a post to let someone know I think ill of thier post, nor can I neg rep them to show that they are a repugnant entity, much like I can't dislike a post on Facebook. I can only sit back an "not like" the hell out of something I find scathingly terrible, and I find that double plus ungood!

I think you might be on to something. You know how people are always asking for a 'dislike' option on FB? Perhaps we could do a kudos and a dislike button for posts... But I don't like the idea of giving negative rep points.