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> Accounts which are less than 2 weeks old will appear with a green username.

I thought they were "approved" users.

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I thought they were the poster or parent comment user. Green probably isnt the best choice for new users.

"Green" does mean "new" though. I think a bigger issue is that other admins/OPs/etc don't have colors.

"To be green" is an idiom that means "to be immature in age or judgment; untrained; inexperienced."

So it's not completely misplaced.

It is frequently used on other forums and sites to show users as being mods or admins. Why not show account age if the signal is important?

I can certainly think of some reasons why it makes sense. But I can think of plenty of reasons why it doesnt as well.

Once you decide you need a color to mark new accounts, the same reasoning can be applied to pretty much any color. Probably the solution is to add a [new] tag like it happens already to dead, flagged, and banned entries or accounts.

From a web UX perspective it's true, but green is a common metaphor for new in English.

https://www.quora.com/How-did-the-word-green-become-synonymo...

It's also not a good idea to use only color.

I assume this is about the users colored with #3c963c. A quick search tells me that's "dark moderate lime green", which I assume to most people is just "green". I have no clue if it is though, and I'm often wrong about color things. I should make a list of the different colors names can be tagged with and make a little tampermonkey script to call them out.

I never understood it - can't we just have something like "fred_bloggs [new poster]"?

(although the "undocumented" bit about this is just the time span, what green users are is documented in the FAQ)

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