Erik Moeller wrote:
Check the link color. If it's a new user, the user page and/or talk page link is likely to be red (non-existent). We should store the user creation date in the user table and provide that information on the user page, though.
Many of these don't stay red for long since I greet users and create blank user pages for them usually within 48 hours of them appearing on Recent Changes.
<dreaming> It would be very nice to have a manual 'Watch this user' option that would work similarly to 'Watch this page'. Then it would be possible to flag troublesome users. The user name/IP of a flagged user would show up bold on Recent Changes. It would also be neat to be able (via a user preference) to automatically have new users flagged in Recent Changes (maybe even be able to customize the "newbiness" threshold similar to the way the stub detector works - there could also be a timeout whereby if a user or IP hasn't made an edit in x months then they are considered to be a newbie again).
We could even have an 'Ignore this user' option where ignored users and their edits would not be shown in RC. But I am a bit uncomfortable with that idea. </dreaming>
--Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
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