A pointless wish for an Unrec button...

There is a lot of discussion on the site right now about what to do about diary swarming-  diaries getting to the top of the Rec list not as a function of their excellence, timeliness, or import, but simply because a group of people jump on them immediately to rec them up.  I've even seen this advice given to would-be Swarmers:  "You know the drill, Rec first, read second.  You can always Unrec it later if it's crap."

Last night, high on the Rec list was another SYFPH diary.  RIght now, as I type this, topping the Rec list is a diary entitled "I Am A Superdelegate."  Both are funny, I guess, but are they really our recommended reading?   On the eve of three hugely important primaries, the joke diary "I Am A Superdelegate" is what we think no one should miss?  

Every day things shoot to the top of our heap that may not reflect our best efforts, and there isn't any community check/balance system to offset it.

A simple solution would be to have a Diary "Unrecommend" button available to all users with rec powers- the current system allows that option only to those who have already recommended the diary.

Is there any reason that this would be a bad idea?  It just strikes me as a reasonable balance at a time when I think most of the community wishes that our Rec List reflected the best that we had to offer.

Update- I'm sure it's a very unpopular idea with many people, as the comments show.  Maybe I'm in the minority in thinking of our Rec List as a community selection of pieces that we feel deserve wider readership, that represent us as a community, and that we would like to feature to people coming to the site from outside.