How do I get my username in green on Hacker News?

#1

Post by oxygenz » Sun, Sep 06, 2020, 6:13 PM UTC

I notice some people's usernames are green in hacker-news. What's the significance of that and how do I do it?

Re: How do I get my username in green on Hacker News?

#2

Post by DanBC » Sun, Sep 06, 2020, 6:14 PM UTC

New users have a green username. This is so you can provide friendly, helpful, notes to those users.

Re: How do I get my username in green on Hacker News?

#3

Post by oxygenz » Sun, Sep 06, 2020, 6:15 PM UTC

DanBC wrote: post #2

New users have a green username. This is so you can provide friendly, helpful, notes to those users.

great thank you for the information!

Re: How do I get my username in green on Hacker News?

#4

Post by detaro » Sun, Sep 06, 2020, 6:15 PM UTC

It marks new accounts (I think created in the last 14 days)

Re: How do I get my username in green on Hacker News?

#5

Post by oxygenz » Sun, Sep 06, 2020, 6:16 PM UTC

detaro wrote: post #4

It marks new accounts (I think created in the last 14 days)

thank you! I guess I was already green :)

Re: How do I get my username in green on Hacker News?

#6

Post by Pick-A-Hill2019 » Sun, Sep 06, 2020, 6:27 PM UTC

I was about to add a snarky "Easy answer: Read the HN F.A.Q. level comment but after a bit of looking around the answer isn't obvious (yet somehow I sort of knew it through being a HN user) and using the Search box didn't return anything useful so instead of snark I used a bit of google-fu & here's your answer. HTH.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2456602

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3848762

TLDR; Green Accounts are for users who are under 5 days old. You can see all their submissions at - http://news.ycombinator.com/noobstories

[Edit to add, Or perhaps it is 14 days as per https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3848820]

Double Edit: Confirmed, 14 days (not 5). See https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented for a full list

Re: How do I get my username in green on Hacker News?

#7

Post by oxygenz » Tue, Sep 08, 2020, 11:04 AM UTC

Pick-A-Hill2019 wrote: post #6

I was about to add a snarky "Easy answer: Read the HN F.A.Q. level comment but after a bit of looking around the answer isn't obvious (yet somehow I sort of knew it through being a HN user) and using the Search box didn't return anything useful so instead of snark I used a bit of google-fu & here's your answer. HTH. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2456602 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3848762 TLDR; Green…

wow, you are very thorough and I would have gladly accepted the snark :) This was a case of efficiency on my part,i.e. 30second hacker-news comment vs 5-10 minutes searching (my wife might not call it efficiency). Thank you for the response!