> And now his comment is grey. It's not, as far as I see now. Anyway, downvoting on HN is not the same thing as "verboten". Downvoting is a feature of HN that

> And now his comment is grey. It's not, as far as I see now. Anyway, downvoting on HN is not the same thing as "verboten". Downvoting is a feature of HN that is supposed to put higher quality comments higher up and lower quality comments lower down. (I'm not saying it works, but that's the theory.)