FoxFourOhFour said:
Also any vote lower than -2 DOES get hidden.

In your settings, there's a section called "comments" .. including your 'comment threshold'.... you can set it to whatever you like. set it to -200 and you'll probably never see any hidden comments. Set it to 10 and you'll only see commenting gold.

You control what you see.

Mine is set to -5. I see most comments. and the comments that I don't see tend to be flaming assholes. When I click to view their comment, all I feel is regret, generally. and anger.