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0 pointstaneq8y ago0 comments

Is this cause (ie. people downvote greens out of prejudice) or effect (greens are often created to shitpost?

And to concentrate all my meta in one place... Is shadow banning a thing at HN? I thought they just, well, banned you.

0 pointstaneq8y ago0 comments

Is this cause (ie. people downvote greens out of prejudice) or effect (greens are often created to shitpost?

And to concentrate all my meta in one place... Is shadow banning a thing at HN? I thought they just, well, banned you.

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Rjevski8y ago· 4 in thread

OT - new user here, what does green mean? I assumed it was staff/moderators.

mbel8y ago

It means new user (hence green color).

jancsika8y ago

I just assumed green meant admin or some kind of paying customer.

I'd venture to guess green users could use this ambiguity to play subtle rhetorical tricks on users with a moderate number of points here.

parthdesai8y ago

your username will appear green till you get a certain amount of karma/upvotes.

striking8y ago

I thought it was based on time.

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Jtsummers8y ago

They added shadowbanning some time ago and later added a user (the rest of us) ability to vouch for dead posts to revive them. There were reasons at the time they did this that the admins could probably explain better.

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