this comment reinforces the theory that comments on HN are not sorted only by their score in the current thread, but more significantly by the commenters' avera

this comment reinforces the theory that comments on HN are not sorted only by their score in the current thread, but more significantly by the commenters' average or total karma. at time of posting, the parent's user had 3.74 avg karma, but the comment was already graying-out relative to comments that were lower down the thread.