Curse

lyra_song · Jan 21, 2006, 02:51 AM // 02:51

Im sure everyone here has encountered someone who manages to always speak in caps.

I am proposing a simple filter that either: Turns all caps lines (or lines with maybe 80% caps) into small case OR ignores it completely.

anonymous · Jan 21, 2006, 03:14 AM // 03:14

meh id rather have an update that actually kinda... like matters.

Robster Lobster · Jan 21, 2006, 03:25 AM // 03:25

R/Me lfg IWAY, VIM

Without calculating, that's a fair amount of capitals, but as they're abbreviations capitals are suitable. Although I can totally see where you're coming from, people that type in nothing but capitals can be really annoying.

Then again (just thinking as I go along here) maybe my example above isn't that good, it wouldn't be that big a change for people to adjust to typing in lower case, especially if they were prompted to do so. But there could be problems with names, for example people called a name like "P A L A D I N"

anonymous · Jan 21, 2006, 03:29 AM // 03:29

Ive never seen whats annoying about caps. so what the letters are bigger.

Robster Lobster · Jan 21, 2006, 03:48 AM // 03:48

Quote:

Originally Posted by anonymous

Ive never seen whats annoying about caps. so what the letters are bigger.

Well, it tends to 'drown out' lower case typing, people pay less attention to them when you have bigger letters all over the place, and it's also considered bad 'netiquette' as capitals usually means you're shouting.

"ATTACK CALLED TARGET" is alot more agressive than "Attack called target".

anonymous · Jan 21, 2006, 03:53 AM // 03:53

Quote:

Originally Posted by Robster Lobster

Well, it tends to 'drown out' lower case typing, people pay less attention to them when you have bigger letters all over the place, and it's also considered bad 'netiquette' as capitals usually means you're shouting.

"ATTACK CALLED TARGET" is alot more agressive than "Attack called target".

While i respect your opinion, to state it flatly, I dont agree. It isnt hard to read lower case letters in upper case one. Now hard reading is trying to deciper LA d1 without slowing down chat by scrolling through at your own speed

. And i personally dont consider it shouting just because many others do. Doesnt hurt my ears at all to read all caps. Or eyes for that matter.

again, to others who read this post, this is an OPINION. I feel the need to say that again to hopefully avoid drawing the flame fish.