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It was the day of the SOPA blackout IIRC. Redditors were bored and looking for their hit of lolcats.

Bashing Reddit on HN? SO BRAVE

Does graying out a downvoted comment attract less or more attention to it?

Probably more. I'm looking at -40 from that comment alone, hah.

I also vote more :)

I tend to ignore slightly grayed out text. When I see a barely visible comment (such as mine!), my curiosity gets the best of me.