Text posts are always grayed out here. If you check out the Ask[1] portion of the site, you'll see that all of those are as well. There's no meaning to it, unli

Text posts are always grayed out here. If you check out the Ask[1] portion of the site, you'll see that all of those are as well. There's no meaning to it, unlike when a comment gets grayed out due to downvotes. It seems like a silly design choice to me, but all of them are that way. [1] Clickable: http://news.ycombinator.com/ask http://news.ycombinator.com/ask