Oh, okay. I think the GP meant the latter and I misinterpreted him or overlooked the distinction. In my mind getting massively faded out makes you about just

Oh, okay. I think the GP meant the latter and I misinterpreted him or overlooked the distinction. In my mind getting massively faded out makes you about just as disappeared as being [dead]. At least from the perspective of reading the thread, it's approximately the same thing, and I thought . But considering the perspective of writing a comment, though: I've gotten a lot angrier when a comment (on Reddit) was deleted than when some HN comment was faded away. This is the second time I've seen downvoting-to-[dead] affect some of the weirder people on HN in a way that seems to violate the principle of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAg7AmyG2Ys https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAg7AmyG2Ys . There are some other threads in the past (the justin.tv suicide maybe) where I've seen simply unpopular worldviews get downvoted and it would have been a shame for them to be [dead].