# All Caps

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-caps/378644>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [October 31, 2006, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-caps/378644 "2006-10-31T21:11:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 9\
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**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2006, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-caps/378644/1 "2006-10-31T21:11:26Z")

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Does The Message Board Software Automatically “correct” Posts In All Caps To First Letter Capitalized And Others Lower Case?

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**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2006, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-caps/378644/2 "2006-10-31T21:16:23Z")

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Apparantly it does, sice I typed that post in all caps.

Sorry, I think that is a dumb feature. Nobody posts in all caps anymore, and it is more annoying when someone posts with no capitalization. Does the software auto correct that too?

Sometime all caps is appropriate, such as in my post in [this thread.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=394327)

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**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2006, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-caps/378644/3 "2006-10-31T21:33:33Z")

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WELL, YOU CAN DO IT AS LONG AS AT LEAST ONE LETTER IS LoWERCASE, LIKE THIS.

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**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2006, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-caps/378644/4 "2006-10-31T21:36:59Z")

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EVEN SNEAKIER, YOU CAN REPLACE A CAPITAL “I” WITH A LOWERCASE “L”, LlKE I’VE DONE HERE. 😃

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**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2006, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-caps/378644/5 "2006-10-31T22:39:35Z")

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THIS IS A TEST

tHIS IS A TEST

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**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2006, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-caps/378644/6 "2006-10-31T22:40:36Z")

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If You Press “preview Post” It Does It, But Not If You Don’t

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**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2006, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-caps/378644/7 "2006-10-31T22:41:52Z")

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It Depends On Whether Or Not You Put Quotation Marks- That’s The Answer!

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**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2006, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-caps/378644/8 "2006-10-31T22:43:28Z")

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SILLY ME, IT DEPENDS ON WHETHER OR NOT YOU HAVE A LOWERCASE LETTER. Q.E.D. WAS RlGHT ALL ALONG. AND THAT’S AN “L” IN “RIGHT.”

“Number A, you don’t have to shout. Do you know how many Internet laws you’re breaking by typing in all caps? One…don’t type in all caps.”- Strong Bad

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**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2006, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-caps/378644/9 "2006-10-31T23:25:47Z")

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[QUOTE=Lamar Mundane]  
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Sorry, I think that is a dumb feature. Nobody posts in all caps anymore…  
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No, but even the occasional annoying person doing it will get caught out this way.

[QUOTE=Lamar Mundane]  
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and it is more annoying when someone posts with no capitalization. Does the software auto correct that too?  
[/quote]

No, I suppose the feeling is that there might yet be hope for those people. 🙂  
Ah, well, now I know there are ways round it if I ever want to shout. I suppose that is ignorance fought. 😃