LJ User Info Hands
ETA: Sorry if this doesn't work. The script needs to be updated and the guide rewritten. We are aware of the issue and apologize for the inconvenience. We will try to fix this as soon as possible. To be honest, it may take a while though.
Currently, in order to tell a Basic or Early Adopter Account from a Plus Account, you have to scroll to the bottom of the User Information page. But that's also where the ads on Plus profiles are. kunzite1 has made a Greasemonkey script that will show images next to the journal username on User Information pages to indicate the Account Level:
Basic Accounts
Early Adopter Accounts
Plus Accounts
Paid Accounts
Permanent Accounts
How to Install
Greasemonkey is a browser extension that runs in Mozilla Firefox. If you don't already have Greasemonkey installed, make sure you have installed Firefox 1.5 and get Greasemonkey 0.6.4. Click on the "Install Greasemonkey 0.6.4" link at the top. There might be an alert saying it's blocked for safety reasons--click the button the alert and add their website to the list of acceptable installations. After installation, restart your browser. You should see a small monkey icon in the bottom right of the bottom browser bar.
After installing Greasemonkey, go here in Mozilla Firefox. At the top of the page there will be a notice from Greasemonkey instructing you to click "Install"; click the button.
Note that the images only appear after a profile is fully loaded--this might take some time on User Information pages with a lot of images!
How to Alter
Let's say you want different images or alt text than the ones used by the default script. You can easily change the values; you just need URLS to the images you want to use. Those images can be from any provider that allows hotlinking.
Save ljuserinfohands.user.js to your computer. Open the file with your preferred plain text editor--such as Notepad or jEdit.
There will be a section near the top of the script that looks like this:
//START USER CONFIGURABLE VARIABLES
//IMAGES
var freeimg = "http://pics.livejournal.com/kunzite1/pic/0019rkcy";
var eaadimg = "http://pics.livejournal.com/kunzite1/pic/0019s099";
var sponimg = "http://pics.livejournal.com/kunzite1/pic/0025q7es";
var paidimg = "http://stat.livejournal.com/img/talk/md10_thumbup.gif";
var permimg = "http://pics.livejournal.com/kunzite1/pic/000b70hc";
//ALTS FOR IMAGES
var freealt = "Free Account";
var eaadalt = "Early Adopter Account";
var sponalt = "Sponsored+ Account";
var paidalt = "Paid Account";
var permalt = "Permanent Account";
//END USER CONFIGURABLE VARIABLES
All those variable values can be modified.
freeimg: basic account image URL
eaadimg: early adopter account image URL
sponimg: plus account image URL
paidimg: paid account image URL
permimg: permanent account image URL
freealt: basic account image alt text
eaadalt: early adopter account image alt text
sponalt: plus account image alt text
paidalt: paid account image alt text
permalt: permanent account image alt text
Make sure any variable values you change are still enclosed in quotes and that the line has a ";" after it. Save the file and then use your web browser to open it. Use Greasemonkey's install dialogue to install your updated script, then test it on some profile pages to make sure it works. If it doesn't, don't worry, you can reinstall the default script again by going here.
Requests
Give this entry to anyone who might find this script useful. If you think you've found a bug, report it. If you think you have suggestions for improving the code, tell us.
If anyone is willing to tweak or test this script in Internet Explorer's Trixie or Turnabout, Opera's User JS, or Safari's Creammonkey, please let us know.