I agree. Text posts always being grey is also confusing -- text post pages very closely resemble subthread pages, but in a subthread page, the top post is only

I agree. Text posts always being grey is also confusing -- text post pages very closely resemble subthread pages, but in a subthread page, the top post is only grey if it's been downmodded. Compare (picked at random off the front page): Text post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3966301 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3966301 Subthread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3965661 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3965661 I often find myself thinking "Huh, why has this post been downmodded? Wait, no, it's a text post, not a subthread."