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by torben-friis 1278 days ago
>Compare this to reddit. Your comment is either accepted or rejected. There isn't a grey area.

Not true, not anymore at least.

Used to be that comments downvoted beyond a threshold automatically folded the comment branch, making it less visible. Now it does that for upvoted comments as well, for an unclear reason (untrusted accounts or something?).