The only reason it was greyed out was that people got upset and downvoted it.
And while my comment now has -4 it had previously +4 so evidently not everybody agrees with your community standards.
And while my comment now has -4 it had previously +4 so evidently not everybody agrees with your community standards.
What you describe seems to be happening more and more often these days, and I think it's harmful. Comments will receive many upvotes, and then suddenly start getting many downvotes. Or it'll happen the other way around.
When that kind of fluctuation is happening, I think the only appropriate thing to do, especially when downvotes or downvoted comments are involved, is to show the comment normally, instead of obscuring it with harder to read grey text. Clearly there's some agreement, and there's some disagreement, so the only sane thing to do is to show the comment so readers can make their own analyses of it.
It's not fair, but the staff have mentioned that the site isn't intended to be fair, it's intended to preserve intellectual quality and signal over noise at all costs.
Given the choice between showing a potentially controversial comment by default and censoring it by default, they would probably opt for the latter, because it makes them easier to ignore.
You can still select the text to read it if you want to. Which I guess is slightly better than just automatically deleting them or something.