Is it just me or are downvoted posts completely unreadable? It would be nice if there were an "unhide" button or something; it's extremely annoying to have to squint to read it.
That's intentional. Downvoted posts fade both to save people from reading them (presumably most are mistaken or nasty) and to damp the submitter's karma loss (the fainter they are, the harder you have to work to be offended by them).
