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Why would it matter what color it is? If it was purple, would that be better? How about orange? Or pink?
– Cody Gray
Commented Mar 2, 2012 at 22:27
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@CodyGray: it would matter because it would separate failures from adjustments. A heavily downvoted question/answer is the user's fault (and should be red), but, for example, a "-30" for an answer to a deleted question is a system adjustment, and the user has nothing to do with it.
– Yuriy Guts
Commented Mar 2, 2012 at 22:30

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