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Re:Hacking WiFi to inject cryptocurrency miner to HTML reque... by mschuster91 on Thursday January 04, 2018 @10:09AM (#16070822)
New users are green, iirc 50 or 100 karma points required to get normal grey
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Re:Hacking WiFi to inject cryptocurrency miner to HTML reque... by 0xWilliam on Thursday January 04, 2018 @10:12AM (#16070850)
Feels like they are more superior than us based on his color.
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Re:Hacking WiFi to inject cryptocurrency miner to HTML reque... by nkrisc on Thursday January 04, 2018 @10:54AM (#16071258)
In English being "green" can mean being "new," like a sapling or new shoots on a plant, which are often bright green.

I don't know for sure if that's why they chose to make new users green but that's how I view it.

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Re:Hacking WiFi to inject cryptocurrency miner to HTML reque... by rocky1138 on Thursday January 04, 2018 @10:42AM (#16071137)
That's probably a cultural thing. In some cultures, red is superior to green.

Really, it's not about them being better or worse than a user with more Karna. It's just a signal to everyone that this person might be advertising or AstroTurfing.

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Re:Hacking WiFi to inject cryptocurrency miner to HTML reque... by parmesan on Thursday January 04, 2018 @04:59PM (#16074460)
What?! I didn't know it indicates that the user is "untrusted", I'm from Sweden and my impression has been that the green users are super users of some kind.
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Re:Hacking WiFi to inject cryptocurrency miner to HTML reque... by ateesdalejr on Thursday January 04, 2018 @06:15PM (#16075013)
That was my impression as well. I never knew that. Guess it's good to know though.
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