> I think HN's design choices in this area are good and I've not heard sufficiently good reasons to change them. I find it hard to believe that in a discussion

> I think HN's design choices in this area are good and I've not heard sufficiently good reasons to change them. I find it hard to believe that in a discussion which supposedly “goes back to the beginning of the site” you haven’t heard sufficient reasons yet. I’ve often thought about gathering a collection of comments that were perfectly reasonable, well-behaved and factual, but still grayed out because somebody didn’t like them. (It takes, what, just 2 or 3 downvotes to make a comment practically invisible.) Perhaps enough such examples would be sufficient to recognize that there is a problem.