Question on Witness Voting

source
It is just a thought, and I have no "targets" in mind I swear :). It just seemed a bit odd to me that we should have three options when it comes to posts and those same options aren't available to a witness vote.

Witnesses serve a valuable role in our community and is the reason they are compensated as well as they are. I am curious why a downvote option is not available.

I read a thread where someone made a case against a witness and the options given to the reader were to go into the witness page and to effectively neutralize this witness, the only option given was to use your allotted votes in an anyone but manner.

While I am not personally critical of the current witnesses, I also don't care for the thought of casting a vote for someone I do not know about, or support really, in order to vote against someone. Would it be possible to add a downvote option?

I can completely understand not wanting to see someone become, or stay, a witness when there is a belief they are abusing the privilege, or simply not doing enough. I also really don't care for the option of being forced to look into 30 other options to make informed votes.

30 votes are great, but a yay/nay vote allows me to the freedom to directly vote against someone without forcing me into supporting many others.

It's just a thought, I would be curious to hear if it could be done, or why it couldn't.