Totally off topic -- but why does HN render the text of these "HN Questions" with such a light font? It looks like they've been downvoted 10 times, or something. It makes it hard to read, and I can't understand the reason for it.
Hmm, I had assumed that they were all getting downvoted!
submissions can't be downvoted.
Good to know. Unfortunately, since comment upvotes and downvotes are restricted features until you reach a certain level, but one's comments will probably be up/downvoted before getting there, a logical, if wrong, conclusion is that there IS a submission downvote feature, but one just can't see it yet.
I'd like to know this too. My brain constantly registers it as (incorrectly) being as a result of having been downvoted.
AFAIK: To discourage use of them, since HN wants the focus to be on link submissions.
Great response, thanks! I like the HN questions -- but I understand maybe that's not their thing. :)
The variety of Ask HN is a positive feature this community has over a pure aggregator, IMO.
If they are discouraged, why do they have their own entry in the header[1]? I always thought the light text was just to separate them visually from the comments.