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Noob comments on HN
- patmcguire 13y agoHow are these generated?
- deleted 13y ago[deleted]
- hysan 13y agoI'm guessing these are all comments made by accounts created within the last 24 hours.
- jw2013 13y agoNo. Just took a random look at a couple of them, and one of the poster registered 5 days ago. I am guessing maybe 7 days?
- alecdbrooks 13y agoIt can't be that either, one person's account is 12 days old. Googling around, one source [0] suggested it counts only active days. [0]: http://www.quora.com/Hacker-News/What-does-the-green-username-on-Hacker-News-represent http://www.quora.com/Hacker-News/What-does-the-green-usernam...
- minimaxir 13y agoGreen accounts are new and have low karma.
- Springtime 13y agoThe power of the cloud.
- tomca32 13y agoYour comment just made me realize that I have "cloud to butt" plugin installed in my browser...it does exactly what you would think it does.
- Springtime 13y agoHad a laugh at the addon concept. I think I'd prefer it as a userscript though, considering it's novelty use.
- djent 13y agoAll the comments are by green-colored-username users. I've never understood what the green usernames meant, but I guess it's a sign of noobs.
- userbinator 13y agoThis is where the colour association came from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green#Youth_and_inexperience http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green#Youth_and_inexperience
- jpalomaki 13y agoFor quite long time I thought the green was used to indicate a special person, someone related to Y combinator or one of the startups (I think back then it was not so common to see comments from "green" users).
- serge2k 13y agoI always thought green meant the poster.
- networked 13y agoI've just been pointed out in a similar thread nearby (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7446404 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7446404) that the "Lists" link has been there in the bottom left corner all along. The lists page links to /noobcomments, /noobstories, /best, etc.
- gk1 13y agoBetween these lists that have been popping up today and the recent discussion about custom-color privileges, I was really beginning to wonder how much of HN am I missing. Glad to hear this wasn't a hidden thing after all; just not prominently shown.
- TallboyOne 13y agoHmm interesting, never noticed the 'Lists' link before. Learn something new every day!
- faddotio 13y agoThis might be good for spotting astroturfing campaigns.
- geuis 13y agoI think that this is a bad idea. Not enough people care about approving other people's comments for those accounts to get approved. Note that my comment comes from someone with over 8600 karma. I'll never be silenced, but I fear anyone after me will be.
- chippy 13y agoI agree - but let's wait and see. I think that not only do strangers on the internet not want to moderate newbie's strangers on the internet contributions, they don't want to moderate old timers contributions either. People do not want to do work maintaining a social network for free. Those that do have a vested interest in the status quo of that social network. But let's see what actually happens. What's funny is that no-one will see this reply to your insightful comment that you posted 5 hours ago. And it only needs 2 out of the 5500 > 1000 Karma users to view it. In fact, as I write this, I'm considering never replying to such comments again.
- gales 13y agoNot sure if I've been silenced, as my last three-comments have an asterisk next to them, and I'm unable to find them when browsing from another device.
- lauradhamilton 13y agoI can see you
- keithpeter 13y agoIs there a way of generating a list of comments by people with karma over (say) 5000? Just to see if the quality is any different to the ones in this chronological list?
- dave1010uk 13y agoSeeing these comments by themselves gives no context. While a good comment is likely to be recognisable by itself, this is not always the case.
- stillsut 13y agoWhen scanning the comments, I always make sure to read the grayed-out ones. They-re not usually great, but they tell me important information about HN audience's biases. So please, down-vote me!
- nsmalch 13y agoAnother errata-type link of interest https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=paulgraham https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=paulgraham There's a few others lying around on Hackernews worth checking out. Think of them as easter eggs.