Why Is Neg-Rep Not Allowed?

[Welsh cake]

Kayenneh's answer is perfect. We used to allow it, but people started abusing it and creating large rep wars. We disabled it, and people just shifted to using "neutral" reps for their abuse, so now those are disabled as well. At least now if you want to insult someone via the rep system, you are forced into giving them positive rep whilst you do it.

So someone can give a positively negative reputation remark? If you can't beat the system, break it. Now people can start becoming infamous as opposed to merely "popular" or "well-liked" on the forum.

So how long until you disable the whole feedback feature and replace it with a drop-down-list of predetermined responses then? Such as these?

"You rock! Woo hoo!"
"You put the A in Atheist!"
"You're seated on the right hand of Tiberius!"
"I love your posts more than the moon, the stars, the--POETIC IMAGE #36 NOT FOUND."