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Is this an April's fool joke? I can't find this setting.

by khrm 10y ago

najati83 10y ago
There's a karma threshold for it to appear, for some reason.
LeoPanthera 10y ago
No? The option is under "minaway". Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/EmO0gz1.png http://i.imgur.com/EmO0gz1.png
mmastrac 10y ago
It should be called "topcolor"
dang 10y ago
You need 250 karma. Some history here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13498128 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13498128
- tradersam 10y ago
  Damn karma limits. So close, yet so far.
  - Mz 10y ago
    Well, maybe 35 more generous people will donate their upvote to you this April Fools Holiday so, you too, can pick whatever damn header color you like. Happy Holidays! (I already donated my upvote to The Cause.)
    - cyberpunk 10y ago
      Hahaha, this made me laugh.. My good deed for the day has been upvoting a comment to allow someone to change their hackernews header colour. It's taking me a while to parse this event.. I'm going to turn off the laptop and go get a drink now. Maybe two. Damn you internets! What have I become!
      - Mz 10y ago
        I have finally found a good use for April Fools: Advocating silly behavior on HN of a sort that normally gets frowned upon.
        dang 10y ago
        That actually does square the circle.
        Mz 10y ago
        Every other time I have suggested upvoting someone past a karma threshold so they could do a thing, I got downvoted into the negatives. Because, clearly, someone hitting 250 karma and getting to pick their own header color is an enormous threat to the social pecking order and quality of discussion by completely destroying the signal value of karma ranking. I shall be back next year to repeat this experiment and see if it works again (assuming I remember).
        tradersam 10y ago
        Only if HN had RemindMe! 365 days "April Fools upvotes".
        Mz 10y ago
        Well, I assume you will have your 250 by then. Just comment and/or post articles. You aren't too far from it.
    - tradersam 10y ago
      Thank you for your contribution to The Cause!
  - SnowingXIV 10y ago
    Same, I feel so close and I didn't even know this was a thing! My wife always changes the color on the iPhone app to whatever holiday/season it is. The current color is the Cadbury egg purple.
  - cyberpunk 10y ago
    Did it work?
- artursapek 10y ago
  What a tease
  - Mz 10y ago
    What do you expect on April 1st?

Is this an April's fool joke? I can't find this setting.

by khrm 10y ago

Is this an April's fool joke? I can't find this setting.

najati83 10y ago

There's a karma threshold for it to appear, for some reason.

LeoPanthera 10y ago

No? The option is under "minaway". Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/EmO0gz1.png http://i.imgur.com/EmO0gz1.png

mmastrac 10y ago

It should be called "topcolor"

dang 10y ago

You need 250 karma. Some history here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13498128 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13498128

tradersam 10y ago
Damn karma limits. So close, yet so far.
- Mz 10y ago
  Well, maybe 35 more generous people will donate their upvote to you this April Fools Holiday so, you too, can pick whatever damn header color you like. Happy Holidays! (I already donated my upvote to The Cause.)
  - cyberpunk 10y ago
    Hahaha, this made me laugh.. My good deed for the day has been upvoting a comment to allow someone to change their hackernews header colour. It's taking me a while to parse this event.. I'm going to turn off the laptop and go get a drink now. Maybe two. Damn you internets! What have I become!
    - Mz 10y ago
      I have finally found a good use for April Fools: Advocating silly behavior on HN of a sort that normally gets frowned upon.
      - dang 10y ago
        That actually does square the circle.
        Mz 10y ago
        Every other time I have suggested upvoting someone past a karma threshold so they could do a thing, I got downvoted into the negatives. Because, clearly, someone hitting 250 karma and getting to pick their own header color is an enormous threat to the social pecking order and quality of discussion by completely destroying the signal value of karma ranking. I shall be back next year to repeat this experiment and see if it works again (assuming I remember).
        tradersam 10y ago
        Only if HN had RemindMe! 365 days "April Fools upvotes".
        Mz 10y ago
        Well, I assume you will have your 250 by then. Just comment and/or post articles. You aren't too far from it.
  - tradersam 10y ago
    Thank you for your contribution to The Cause!
- SnowingXIV 10y ago
  Same, I feel so close and I didn't even know this was a thing! My wife always changes the color on the iPhone app to whatever holiday/season it is. The current color is the Cadbury egg purple.
- cyberpunk 10y ago
  Did it work?
artursapek 10y ago
What a tease
- Mz 10y ago
  What do you expect on April 1st?