Great observations regarding personal/back-and-forth, I skip those too as a reader yet get caught up in it sometimes when I post a top-level thing. > weak sign

Great observations regarding personal/back-and-forth, I skip those too as a reader yet get caught up in it sometimes when I post a top-level thing. > weak signal of popular consensus Basically what I've been using it for recently > but it's not always clear why some comments get downvoted Yeah this is what mainly prompted the question - there's a stylistic component. Yet sometimes people just post funny comments that are out-of-character for HN but funny and it will be upvoted, I am often confused by it too. The greyed-out comments thing I think is hilarious, it seems like an idea that comes up in a product meeting to take up whiteboard space or to lightly joke about implementing.