> Accounts which are less than 2 weeks old will appear with a green username.

I thought they were "approved" users.

I thought they were the poster or parent comment user. Green probably isnt the best choice for new users.

"To be green" is an idiom that means "to be immature in age or judgment; untrained; inexperienced."

So it's not completely misplaced.

I can certainly think of some reasons why it makes sense. But I can think of plenty of reasons why it doesnt as well.

Once you decide you need a color to mark new accounts, the same reasoning can be applied to pretty much any color. Probably the solution is to add a [new] tag like it happens already to dead, flagged, and banned entries or accounts.

It is frequently used on other forums and sites to show users as being mods or admins. Why not show account age if the signal is important?

It's also not a good idea to use only color.

I assume this is about the users colored with #3c963c. A quick search tells me that's "dark moderate lime green", which I assume to most people is just "green". I have no clue if it is though, and I'm often wrong about color things. I should make a list of the different colors names can be tagged with and make a little tampermonkey script to call them out.

"Green" does mean "new" though. I think a bigger issue is that other admins/OPs/etc don't have colors.

From a web UX perspective it's true, but green is a common metaphor for new in English.

https://www.quora.com/How-did-the-word-green-become-synonymo...

I never understood it - can't we just have something like "fred_bloggs [new poster]"?

(although the "undocumented" bit about this is just the time span, what green users are is documented in the FAQ)