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		What do the green user names mean?
		5 points by foca on April 17, 2011 \| hide \| past \| favorite \| 3 comments
		I looked in the FAQ and it says nothing, but I just noticed that some user names are green (both in the home page and in the comments inside links) (for example, http://puu.sh/1C0y) Is it that said users are new? (both the users I saw in green have created < 24 hours, so maybe that's it, but if anyone knows for sure… great :))

profitbaron on April 17, 2011 [–]

Green Accounts are for users who are under 5 days old. You can see all their submissions at - http://news.ycombinator.com/noobstories

foca on April 19, 2011 | [–]

Thanks! I didn't know of that url. How did you find it? It doesn't seem to be linked anywhere in the site.

profitbaron on April 20, 2011 | | [–]

I found out via here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2434333

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