Hey man.... your text is really really light. Could you please darken it? how did you do that? make it bold or something, my eyes hurt.

That is how Hacker News marks down voted comments - the more downvotes, the lighter the gray.

i think goku99 was being sarcastic but thanks for clearing the downvoting up. obviously he's new around here... and my comment was a remote sensing joke.

clearly downvotes are used to suppress views that certain ycombinator members don't like. i would expect that behavior from china and russia, sad to see it here.

In the comment head, click on the time submitted (it's actually a link), just after the author. For example "9 hours ago". You will be taken to a readable version of any downvoted comment.

This trick only works if you're logged in.

That depends on the quality of your comment.