Wondering Why all the (-)'s are being applied

for the past couple of days, on several of the posts where i have answered some inquiries, i am seeing a vast amount of (-)'s being applied to both the person asking the question, as well as my responses. not that it really matters i dont suppose, just wondering why its going on. I just posted a few minutes ago, to

sorosh1

asking about allowing his users to change the template. i went to look at something on the site, came back and every post on there had a ( - ) on it. how would you guys suggest stopping somebody from arbitrarily hitting the negative on a post just to be pretentious?

oh well probably crying over spilled milk here, but i do consider any positive vote for my posts to be important, and would like for boonex to look at some manner of control on this. i think sammie has mentioned where a user was deleted for violation of TOS in abusing the voting system. what stops a person from creating a new username and continuing with this type of business?

later,

DosDawg