Thanks to the fact that now deleted comments are less impactful, I noticed one corner case: if the User has a badge, also the badge needs to be less impactful.

For example here, look at the orange Badge under my icon:

Before	Proposed

I still need to think about this a bit, but probably the proposed change is to just introduce this CSS rule:

.phui-timeline-shell-removed .phui-timeline-badges {
  opacity: 0.5;
}