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How do I get my username in green on Hacker News?

1 points by oxygenz ↗ HN
I notice some people's usernames are green in hacker-news. What's the significance of that and how do I do it?

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DanBC
New users have a green username. This is so you can provide friendly, helpful, notes to those users.
oxygenz
great thank you for the information!
detaro
It marks new accounts (I think created in the last 14 days)
oxygenz
thank you! I guess I was already green :)
Pick-A-Hill2019
I 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=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

[Edit to add, Or perhaps it is 14 days as per https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3848820]

Double Edit: Confirmed, 14 days (not 5). See https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented for a full list

oxygenz
wow, 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!