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TS: Please ban all-caps posts.

On the other forums I go to on the other game I play all the time (PonyIsland) there's a rule that no forum posts are allowed to have any all-caps words in the title.

Please can you make this a rule here?  I know it's a little fussy and all but, it really is a strain on the eyes to go down and see post after post in all caps.

The only exception to this ought be the posts "HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME" as that's a direct quote from the game.

Thank you.  ^_^*

Posted 13 months ago by ♪♥~ Auren ~♥♪ Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • I don't think the problem can be solved with a filter.  If you prohibit all-caps, people will add one small letter: "HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIMe".  If you require a less than 10% caps, people will find other ways to be obnoxious ("☃ Hurry ☃ Up ☃ Please ☃ It's ☃ Time ☃").

    The solution with the best balance of scalability and fairness is thus: add a way to rate posts and comments and a way for individuals to sort and filter on those ratings.

    Happily, this also gives us a tool with which to solve other problems that are harder to define.
    Posted 12 months ago by Crag Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Ohh a Slashdot-style ratings system.  I think I'd like that.  ^_^
    Posted 12 months ago by ♪♥~ Auren ~♥♪ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I don't see a problem with caps in the titles. The body of the post, well, everybody knows that's annoying (or should, this long after the invention of the Internet). I title posts in caps a lot, though- it's like a header... I guess I don't see how it's eye-straining unless the title of the thread is 123 characters long (which is obnoxious in and of itself).
    Posted 12 months ago by Djabriil Subscriber! | Permalink