Joined:
March 2002
Posts: 14842
Location: NJ | I kinda' find the posting in all CAPS annoying as HELL as well.
The initial requests regarding it were polite & pleasant enough . .
. . and were ignored.
It's since denegrated to coming down to verbal blows.
If you find the whole "caps" thing annoying (like I do), and the individual just simply REFUSES, I would suggest just completely IGNORING any & all posts/polls posted in this fashion (like I do).
For the most part, they're usually pretty INSIPID and INANE, anyway . . . |
Joined:
December 2003
Posts: 1889
Location: Central Massachusetts | Originally posted by moody, p.i.:
Anybody notice that Clifford uses caps not just within sentences, but within words? What's funny is that knowing him fairly well, when he does that, I can hear him speaking what he wrote and hear the inflections from the caps.
Sometimes, knowing that about Clifford, it scares the hell outta me..... In the computer geek industry, we call that CamelCase . I guess around here we should call it LlamaCase.
Regarding the all caps equals shouting issue.. it's been part of common-sense "Netiquette" for more than 25 years for a reason. Online text (email, forums, etc) lacks cues like facial expression and tone of voice. In the absence of those cues, recipients are left with little basis to interpret emotion. Things like typing in all caps, no caps, spelling and grammatical errors, typing without punctuation, etcetera are the only basis upon which the recipient can establish emotional context. You're typing your words in the comfort of your own home or office knowing your own intention, but remember those words are being read by hundreds, if not thousands, of people all over the world who don't have the benefit of that knowledge.
You can say I'M NOT SHOUTING until you're blue in the face, but in a lot of peoples' eyes, you're always going to be starting off your conversations on the wrong foot.. even for those people who've read this thread and know you don't mean any offense. It's like a " close talker ".. they don't mean to violate anybody's personal space, but they do it anyway and it makes people uncomfortable.
If you're typing in all caps because it's easier for you to see, I'd suggest you explore the default font settings and zooming capabilities of your browser and operating system. |
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