Ask PG: Can you explain the new features?

Posted by michael_dorfman on Monday April 11, 2011 @05:13PM
from the self-post dept.

I notice that karma on comments is now hidden, and that some comments have an orange dot. I've also noticed that some user names on submissions are green. There may be other changes I haven't noticed.

Could you (or somebody) give a brief rundown of the changes, and the intent?

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Re:Ask PG: Can you explain the new features? by rtbyr on Monday April 11, 2011 @05:15PM (#2434425)

speculation is rife over here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2434333

n00bs have green names, probably you can only see points on comments if you have enough karma, and so on.

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Re:Ask PG: Can you explain the new features? by michael_dorfman on Monday April 11, 2011 @05:23PM (#2434463)

I've seen the speculation; I was hoping that PG might weigh in with some actual facts.

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Re:Ask PG: Can you explain the new features? by latch on Monday April 11, 2011 @11:26PM (#2435727)

Probably best to just wait until the experiment is over and then explain what was tried, what [seemed to] work and what [seemed not to] work. Especially since some of the changes are having short lives (orange dot).

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Re:Ask PG: Can you explain the new features? by jfarmer on Monday April 11, 2011 @11:46PM (#2435782)

Just a test to see how my name looks. I've been green names and orange dots. Anything else?

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