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I've just been pointed out in a similar thread nearby (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7446404) that the "Lists" link has been there in the bottom left corner all along. The lists page links to /noobcomments, /noobstories, /best, etc.

Between these lists that have been popping up today and the recent discussion about custom-color privileges, I was really beginning to wonder how much of HN am I missing.

Glad to hear this wasn't a hidden thing after all; just not prominently shown.

Hmm interesting, never noticed the 'Lists' link before. Learn something new every day!

Is there a way of generating a list of comments by people with karma over (say) 5000?

Just to see if the quality is any different to the ones in this chronological list?

When scanning the comments, I always make sure to read the grayed-out ones. They-re not usually great, but they tell me important information about HN audience's biases.

So please, down-vote me!

I think that this is a bad idea. Not enough people care about approving other people's comments for those accounts to get approved.

Note that my comment comes from someone with over 8600 karma. I'll never be silenced, but I fear anyone after me will be.

I agree - but let's wait and see.

I think that not only do strangers on the internet not want to moderate newbie's strangers on the internet contributions, they don't want to moderate old timers contributions either.

People do not want to do work maintaining a social network for free. Those that do have a vested interest in the status quo of that social network. But let's see what actually happens.

What's funny is that no-one will see this reply to your insightful comment that you posted 5 hours ago. And it only needs 2 out of the 5500 > 1000 Karma users to view it.

In fact, as I write this, I'm considering never replying to such comments again.

Not sure if I've been silenced, as my last three-comments have an asterisk next to them, and I'm unable to find them when browsing from another device.

I can see you

This might be good for spotting astroturfing campaigns.

Seeing these comments by themselves gives no context. While a good comment is likely to be recognisable by itself, this is not always the case.

How are these generated?

I'm guessing these are all comments made by accounts created within the last 24 hours.

No. Just took a random look at a couple of them, and one of the poster registered 5 days ago. I am guessing maybe 7 days?

It can't be that either, one person's account is 12 days old. Googling around, one source [0] suggested it counts only active days.

[0]: http://www.quora.com/Hacker-News/What-does-the-green-usernam...

Green accounts are new and have low karma.

The power of the cloud.

Your comment just made me realize that I have "cloud to butt" plugin installed in my browser...it does exactly what you would think it does.

Had a laugh at the addon concept. I think I'd prefer it as a userscript though, considering it's novelty use.

All the comments are by green-colored-username users. I've never understood what the green usernames meant, but I guess it's a sign of noobs.

This is where the colour association came from:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green#Youth_and_inexperience

For quite long time I thought the green was used to indicate a special person, someone related to Y combinator or one of the startups (I think back then it was not so common to see comments from "green" users).

I always thought green meant the poster.

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