It has been while since I have tried using default colors while logged in ... yup, "No theme" theme is indeed busted in that the "Comment" link is inivisible. Under "No theme" theme, color of the "Comment" link should not be set like other links.

There is no problem while using own colors (Opera's "User mode", black-red-green-on-white). Else everything appears as black-on-white (including the links, except the "Comment" link) under "Author mode", that is colors are used as specified by the page.

Source in Opera with "No theme" (note the "font" tag specifying the color white) ... 

<table width='100%' bgcolor='' cellpadding='1' cellspacing='1' border=
+'0' id='replies_table'><tr><th colspan='2'>
<a href="?parent=709248;node_id=3333"><font color='white'><u>Comment o
+n</u></font></a> <font color='white'>Re^5: Responding to the ORIGINAL
+ question in a thread</font>
<br /><a href="?node_id=48824;sendto=parv;replytotext=Re%20%5Bid%3A%2F
+%2F709248%5D"><font color="white"><u>Send private /msg</u></font></a>
+ <font color="white">to parv</font></th></tr>
</table>

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(Now, I will reset my colors to white-yellow-green-on-dark-grey to go with "Dark Theme".)

In reply to Re^5: Responding to the ORIGINAL question in a thread by parv
in thread Responding to the ORIGINAL question in a thread by rovf

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