The way that racist comments and other trolls generally get a minus -4 is useful. Having an indication that the community in general abhors a particular unfortunate comment is very useful in this case (though over -4's have seemed completely mean and unjustified).
I hope such comments still are going to get some 'deprecated' indicator...
I'm relatively new to HN, and I am not in favor of the hiding of points on comments. One of the reasons I am here is because of the trust that was created in seeing that the community as a whole actually values (and devalues) the same things I do. If I were to discover HN now, that kind of information about the community is no longer available.
The way that racist comments and other trolls generally get a minus -4 is useful. Having an indication that the community in general abhors a particular unfortunate comment is very useful in this case (though over -4's have seemed completely mean and unjustified).
I hope such comments still are going to get some 'deprecated' indicator...