I thought it made sense when I wrote it.
I also wrote posts about super markets where you would go in to spend your money on a product only to have that product down voted so you were essentially told you could not pay for that.
Eventually the product was no longer on the shelf.
EDIT: someone didn't like anchovies so they made it so no one could buy anchovies.
RE: You cannot take away from the author that which does not belong to the author.