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> Marking opinions is not censorship. You mean when a comment is not readable anymore it is 'marking' instead of censoring? So if China hides peoples opinion i
by pointerpointer 7y ago
> Marking opinions is not censorship.
You mean when a comment is not readable anymore it is 'marking' instead of censoring? So if China hides peoples opinion it is 'marking', like being a good thing? I don't get this.
> more people will write pointless responses
Is that scientifically proven?
- hmry 7y agoThey are supposed to be readable still. If you can't then that's an accessibility issue, not censorship. Try turning up your screens contrast.
- pointerpointer 7y agoI don't have accessibility issues and I don't make this up. I've seen comments with a text color of #eee, I had to go into the inspector to make it readable.. Maybe that has been changed/fixed already which would make my entire comment pointless indeed. Personally I think grey out text should not exceed about #ccc.
- slfnflctd 7y agoI'm actually fine with HN's system because I think most of us know how to get at text which appears unreadable. But this seems like a very fair & reasonable suggestion.
- TeMPOraL 7y agoInteresting, because HN's CSS only goes as high as #ddd. Also, you can use text selection via mouse or appropriate touch gesture in order to read even the lightest-colored comment.
- PavlovsCat 7y agoIf you use Firefox, something I made a while ago might be useful to you, I certainly wouldn't want to read HN without anymore: https://pastebin.com/8StFpps9 https://pastebin.com/8StFpps9 To make comments readable, only the lines from 86 to 106 are needed.
- jonny383 7y agoComments get further and further greyed out as they are voted down more and more, to the point where they do become unreadable. I've manually opened dev-tools just to read comments before. This is not an accessibility issue, this is definitely a censorship issue. Why should an unpopular opinion get greyed out to the point it's unreadable?