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How do I get my username in green on Hacker News?
I notice some people's usernames are green in hacker-news. What's the significance of that and how do I do it?
- DanBC 6y agoNew users have a green username. This is so you can provide friendly, helpful, notes to those users.
- oxygenz 6y agogreat thank you for the information!
- detaro 6y agoIt marks new accounts (I think created in the last 14 days)
- oxygenz 6y agothank you! I guess I was already green :)
- Pick-A-Hill2019 6y agoI 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=2456602 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3848762 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 http://news.ycombinator.com/noobstories [Edit to add, Or perhaps it is 14 days as per https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3848820 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3848820] Double Edit: Confirmed, 14 days (not 5). See https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented for a full list
- oxygenz 6y agowow, 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!