[ddtaylor]

I browse both sites daily and see links between the two quite often. What is strange about one site linking to another?

Also I don't know if it's HN formatting but the commands you posted don't work. I think you're trying to point out there are N number of new users in this thread?

[nullc]

It's saying at the time I commented there were 35 posts in this thread with green names (36 now), while there were 0, 1, 1, and 1 in the other threads respectively.

If you want to go by the ratio of unique green names instead of posts this thread has 13 times more than those threads that had any at all.

[ddtaylor]

There does seem to be a lot of variance in that though. The top post on HN right now is from a green user name. Also the number of comments in the two threads is vastly different.