But what if I WANT caps?

[Rhythmdvl]

In this (http://boardstest.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=11717851&posted=1#post11717851) thread I went through several edits trying to get MST3K to come out appropriately capitalized. Not happening. I get that the Board is coded to prevent shouting posts, but is there a workaround for acronyms?

[An Arky]

It's happened to folks with all-caps usernames, as well.

[Squink]

ALL CAPS IS KEWL!!!
or is it???

[Rhythmdvl]

MST3K

Be-otch

[Gfactor]

TOTALLY F-ED UP! Did not know that.

[Shodan]

never mind

Regards,
Shodan

[BigT]

How'd you get it to work here, then?

But, if you're having problems, don't forget about the noparse tag. Stick it around something, and it doesn't go through the filter.

I AM IN LOVE WITH YOU MY FRIEND

becomes

I AM IN LOVE WITH YOU MY FRIEND

(Don't ask me why I chose that phrase. My brain is random.)

[Giles]

How'd you get it to work here, then?

I'm going to take the liberty of adding some spaces to Squink's message:
ALL CAPS IS KEWL!!!
[ COLOR="White" ]or is it???[ /COLOR ]

If you want to see what coding someone has used in a message, use the "QUOTE" button.

[BigT]

I'm going to take the liberty of adding some spaces to Squink's message:

I knew how Squink did it. I was talking to the OP. He said he couldn't get "MST3K" to work. It was a rhetorical question, my (failed) subtle attempt to show that, if he'd just add a few extra words to the post, it wouldn't be a problem. For example, he could have said "I think you mean MST3K", and it would have worked fine.

Then I offered the noparse tag, which is something he could add without it actually showing up in the post, even when you highlight (like Squink's example does). Unfortunately, it doesn't work by itself. I'll try to find something else.

I'm sorry I was unclear.

[Muffin]

I THOUGHT THAT SOME HISTORIC DAY
SHIFT KEYS WOULD LOCK IN SUCH A WAY
THAT MY POETIC FEET WOULD FALL
UPON EACH CLICKING CAPITAL
AND NOW FROM KEY TO KEY I CLIMB
TO WRITE MY GRATITUDE IN RHYME
YOU LITTLE KNOW WITH WHAT DELIGHT
THROUGHOUT THE LONG AND LONELY NIGHT
I'VE KICKED AND BUTTED (FOOT AND BEAN)
AGAINST THE KEYS OF YOUR MACHINE
TO TELL THE MOVING TALE OF ALL
THAT TO A COCKROACH MAY BEFALL
INDEED IF I COULD NOT HAVE HAD
SUCH OCCUPATION I'D BE MAD
AH FOR A SOUL LIKE MINE TO DWELL
WITHIN A COCKROACH THAT IS HELL
TO SCURRY FROM THE PLAYFUL CAT
TO DODGE THE INSECT EATING RAT
THE HUNGRY SPIDER TO EVADE
THE MOUSE THAT %)?) ) " " " $$$ ((gee boss
what a jolt that cat mehitabel made
a jump for me
it kicked me right into the
mechanism where she
couldn't reach me it
was nearly the death of little
archy that kick spurned me right
out of parnassus back into
the vers libre slums i lay
in behind the wires for an hour after
she left before i dared to get
out and finish i hate
cats say boss please lock the shift
key tight some night
i would like to tell the story of
my life all in capital
letters

archy
(archy was a cockroach who typed on Don Marquis' typewriter in the first two decades of the 20th century http://www.donmarquis.com/readingroom/archybooks/capitals.html )

[C K Dexter Haven]

TESTING: So as long as part of the post is in lower case, USE OF CAPS FOR THE REMAIDER IS OK?

THIS IS INTERESTING, AS I DIDN'T REALIZE UNTIL NOW THAT THE SYSTEM PREVENTED all caps.

[ultrafilter]

How'd you get it to work here, then?

But, if you're having problems, don't forget about the noparse tag. Stick it around something, and it doesn't go through the filter.

I AM IN LOVE WITH YOU MY FRIEND

becomes

I AM IN LOVE WITH YOU MY FRIEND

(Don't ask me why I chose that phrase. My brain is random.)

Doesn't work.

[Muffin]

How sad -- unrequited love.

[Rhythmdvl]

THANKS BigT!

[Freudian Slit]

It's happened to folks with all-caps usernames, as well.

Is that why SHAKES is now Shakes?