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It came to my attention that some answers have the font in gray. What is the criteria for this? I am guessing that it might be low voting, but am not sure. The question with the same down voting is not in gray. Is there other places that can become gray?

Who is the subject of Aにはaction?

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    I think gray out is only for answers with -3 or lower score.
    – YOU
    Oct 24, 2011 at 5:27
  • @YOU I see. Thanks.
    – user458
    Oct 24, 2011 at 5:32
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    Is this a new feature? I never saw it before... Maybe it happens only in Beta SE, since on EL&U I never saw it.
    – Alenanno
    Oct 24, 2011 at 10:57
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    @Alenanno: It is not new. On some SE sites, graying is disabled (probably by accident). Oct 24, 2011 at 12:54

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As YOU notes, this happens when the score of an answer drops to -3.

The gray text is intended to de-emphasize the answer somewhat, since most readers have clearly not found it particularly helpful thus far. At this point, if the author deletes it, he'll get the peer-pressure badge.

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  • Why do we have a badge for this kind of things?
    – Pacerier
    Nov 23, 2011 at 10:48
  • @Pacerier, probably to encourage people to take down their answers if it's not helping anyone... Jan 19, 2012 at 22:01

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