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In general, if you have a green handle, you shouldn't be commenting on things like this. Otherwise we'll have sock puppets galore muddying the waters.
by blazespin 11y ago
In general, if you have a green handle, you shouldn't be commenting on things like this. Otherwise we'll have sock puppets galore muddying the waters.
- eastonhockey19 11y agommmm if you only knew
- umanwizard 11y agouh, says who? Do you work for Y Combinator? Is that in the rules somewhere?
- abrookewood 11y agoWhat does a green handle indicate by the way? I checked the FAQ and there's nothing there.
- PhantomGremlin 11y agogreen handle New account, IIRC less than 2 weeks old. The name is colored green. But I've seen it not be consistent, where some posts are green, others aren't. All in the same thread.
- mintplant 11y agoIt's more complex than just creation date. Somewhere in there it involves votes cast on your posts, which is why you might see someone's name switch colors from one post to another in the same thread (the system doesn't go back and switch name colors on previously-created posts). IIRC the exact mechanism isn't public.
- dang 11y agoNo, it's simpler than that—just a function of account age.
- mintplant 11y agoNew account.
- dang 11y agoNo, because knowledgeable people sometimes make accounts to comment on what they know about. Yes there are fakes too, but HN's philosophy is that it's better to deal with bad things (annoying as that is) than exclude good things. We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10755545 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10755545 and marked it off-topic.