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TIL what the green names mean on HN (new account).

I once worked in an Information Operations group. It has left me deeply suspicious of the verisimilitude of online personae. One of the things I appreciate about HN is the ability to check whether I'm talking to a human, and whether they have a cohesive sentiment.



Mods do their best here, but there's no way to check whether you're talking to a human (on HN or any other digital messaging service)


my metric for now is "do they have human-sounding posts from more than a year ago"


> TIL what the green names mean on HN (new account).

You've been here for five years and just figured that out?




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