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I think showing veteran users in another color would really help a lot to set the tone. If the community rewards snarky posts with many upvotes, this alone will

I think showing veteran users in another color would really help a lot to set the tone. If the community rewards snarky posts with many upvotes, this alone will not be enough though. Perhaps marking up veteran users by karma and/or seniority and weighting upvotes by the same metric?

rdl 14y ago
I agree with showing certain users in certain colors. I don't think karma is the right metric for it. I'd like to see green for new users, maybe some specific color for throwaway accounts of someone with a real account, let people with special other colors reveal that color if they wish, and maybe good and bad colors for people who meet other requirements -- there are some people who probably deserve a "red flag" for 30+ days, but not hellbanning, and others who deserve the honorary purple. The only karma related way I'd award purple is for submission points, or for being early upvoters on submissions in /new which are later upvoted by a lot of other people. Sheer accumulated comment karma is probably not a great metric, since someone who is on HN a lot, chooses to write "populist" comments, etc. is likely to accumulate a lot of karma without adding much value.
franzus 14y ago
> I think showing veteran users in another color would really help a lot to set the tone. Why should we set apart veteran users? Only because they are longer here doesn't mean they have a more important opinion on a certain topic. Setting them more apart is like having village elders. Even if they talk about something they have no idea of they are still right because they are so old?