[DonHopkins]

I'm ok with greying, but I think it goes too far when the contrast gets so low you can't actually read it easily. Even selecting highly grayed text doesn't make it readable.

I get that the point is to make it easier to skip over the downvoted text, but greying so far as to make it almost impossible to read is heavy handed, more like censoring then censuring.

Maybe a continuum of first greying (but not too low contrast), then shrinking (but not too small), and finally striking out (for truly terrible stuff) would be better.

[dang]

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