Question: [This question](https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/243404/pay-real-money-to-set-bounties-another-method-not-replacing-rep-method) was rapidly down-voted without any response of material to help the user understand why the question was so poorly asked that it justified such rapid and massive down-voting. I have seen this happen before, but didn't bother tracking those questions, so for now I have only the one example to provide. My opinion is that down-voting in most of such cases is more for -1 disagree than for any genuine issues with the question.

I just want to suggest that if a question has no answers and some agreed upon negative score (-5? -10?), then no further down-votes should be allowed until an answer is provided. I cannot see any useful purpose to massively down-voting a question without providing a single answer.

Please understand this is not intended to be a discussion on the topic of that question.

Answer: 
I disagree with this proposal. I have nothing constructive to add, but I am just posting an answer because I am required to in order to down-vote, since there are already too many down-votes on the proposal.

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The above is essentially the type of answer that this proposal would attract to questions. Not to mention all the extra NAA flags that would go along with it. This is not particularly useful, I believe.
I think forcing answers is a bad idea. Anyone can vote how they want, pretty much. If they choose to downvote, it's not abuse. They are [encouraged to comment](https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/135/encouraging-people-to-explain-downvotes), but not required to do so, because you can't force them to post a constructive comment, and these discussions often lead to heated arguments, which are not constructive either.

Here on Meta Stack Exchange, [feature-request](/questions/tagged/feature-request "show questions tagged 'feature-request'") questions are voted up if people like them, and down if they don't. Leaving a comment is nice, but not absolutely necessary to send the message. The question you used as an example was obviously (to me) a bad idea, so I downvoted. I might have commented, but a comment I agreed with had already been posted, so I upvoted that instead. Same with this post.

It wasn't the post quality so much (although it helped) that caused the downvoting, so much as the content of the feature-request, which wasn't a good idea.