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minimaxir / hacker-news-undocumented

Some of the hidden norms about Hacker News not otherwise covered in the Guidelines and the FAQ.
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Include profile settings #28

Open mkeedlinger opened 5 years ago

mkeedlinger commented 5 years ago

There are a few settings that one can see in their profile. Some examples I see:

I can't seem to find what these do. I think that the "email" and "about" fields seem obvious, but I guess it wouldn't hurt to include them as well.

tedmiston commented 5 years ago

There are good answers to these in the Hacker News FAQ:

In my profile, what does showdead do? If you turn it on, you'll see all the stories and comments that have been killed by software, moderators, or user flags.

In my profile, what is delay? It gives you time to edit your comments before they appear to others. Set it to the number of minutes you'd like. The maximum is 10.

In my profile, what is noprocrast? It's a way to help you prevent yourself from spending too much time on HN. If you turn it on you'll only be allowed to visit the site for maxvisit minutes at a time, with gaps of minaway minutes in between. The defaults are 20 and 180, which would let you view the site for 20 minutes at a time, and then not allow you back in for 3 hours.

montanaflynn commented 5 years ago

After getting 250 karma you also get to set topcolor in hex format (#46ae46) which changes header color from the default orange to whatever you choose.

You can also see the colors chosen ranked by how many users use the color:

https://news.ycombinator.com/topcolors

mkeedlinger commented 5 years ago

Thanks to both of you for the information! It's much appreciated 😊