Comment by krapp
10 years ago
I would argue against green usernames as well. I think it appears to be a stronger signal of quality than it is (like karma, which if it works should be enough.) Hacker News needs fewer such filters, or at the very least more intelligent ones. If noob accounts act out, downvote and correct them, and if they continue, someone will ban them.
I found green usernames to be useful for voting -- I'll upvote anything by a green user that's a reasonable post a normal functioning human would make, and if it's something to downvote, you can check their posting history and often there's stuff worth upvoting to cancel out the downvote.