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Poll: Orange Names

9 points by lacker ↗ HN
Now that some time has passed, I'm curious what everyone else thought about the orange-names experiment. (In case you are not a Hacker News addict, a couple weeks ago there was a period where people with a comment-score-average of 3.5 got to have their names appear in orange.)

Also see previous discussions:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=467427

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=467895

9 comments

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dsil
Meh, good comments tend to rise to the top without orange names. And with threaded comments it doesn't make much sense to jump around to orange users, so I don't see much point.
tokenadult
I liked knowing what the numerical criteria for orange display of usernames were set at. That allows me to check my own contribution to HN along another dimension besides raw karma count.
peregrine
I don't really think the way it was implemented works. There could be stories in the new category that few people read that you comment on. And just cause nobody saw does not mean it was a poor comment.

My two cents.

pg
I didn't like them. (They're not coming back, at least not as implemented before.)
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davi
I didn't like them, but it was a good experiment.