[Battons]

Another possible solution that could work quite nicely is just removing negative rep completely. That way people won't have complaints about their funny internet points going down, and we can still observe positive takes on issues.
Thoughts?

It is possible, I considered doing this when I reintroduced rep as many image boards I follow do this, but personally felt that having the -1 available would allow people to disagree without feeling the need to comment, thus keeping bloat and redundancy comments to a minimum.
TLDR it can be done if gabe wanted to.