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Former Senior BBC Mideast Correspondent Alan Hart says on air that Israeli Mossad did 9/11:

Links need to fade in down-voted comments. As is, the contrast makes them more prominent.

It is faded, but it needs to fade more.

Only if you click on it [link], then it gets faded because it's been visited.

HN uses a <font> tag in the source, which is overridden by the css for links. I reckon a <span> tag with inline css would work better.