Quite frankly, for most discussions on those subjects, the black text isn't of a much higher standard than the gray text; they tend to bring out the Dunning-Kru

Quite frankly, for most discussions on those subjects, the black text isn't of a much higher standard than the gray text; they tend to bring out the Dunning-Krugers and the jingoists in equal numbers. I've found that some gray comments have more insightful reasoning than highly upvoted comments, and some gray posts invite more nuanced follow-up discussion that is still worth reading. What I do on subjects that have already been rehashed to death: I skim/skip the walls of black text and focus primarily on the black-gray checkered threads.