# Caps in my username
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/caps-in-my-username/95235
**Category:** About This Message Board
**Created:** [November 26, 2001, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/caps-in-my-username/95235 "2001-11-26T03:57:56Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2001, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/caps-in-my-username/95235/1 "2001-11-26T03:57:56Z")
On the subject my username, around when I reached 500 posts I decided to switch to the version of my name that makes the pun funny. I pretty well trust everyone on the board, so I’m not to concerned when I tell everyone that my last name is “Smalley”. The lowercase “e” compared to my name in caps is a “Small e”. The old way I posted was “clayton\_e”. Lost the point. If this really does bother some people, I’ll change back, but just wanted to inform the dopers why I switched to that format.
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### Author:  [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2001, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/caps-in-my-username/95235/2 "2001-11-26T04:09:44Z")
Whatever floats your boat.
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### Author:  [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2001, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/caps-in-my-username/95235/3 "2001-11-26T15:25:10Z")
What I wanna know, and the reason I came into this thread, is why your name keeps showing up in All Caps on the Forum page, but in lower-case here in the threads. 😕
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### Author:  [@Why\_A\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Why_A_Duck)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2001, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/caps-in-my-username/95235/4 "2001-11-26T16:18:46Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Duck Duck Goose \*
> \*\*What I wanna know, and the reason I came into this thread, is why your name keeps showing up in All Caps on the Forum page, but in lower-case here in the threads. 😕 \*\*
Doesn’t it have somthing to do with how you enter it when you log in? I know there was a thread here about that at one time, but my searching skills have failed me.
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### Author:  [@kniz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kniz)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2001, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/caps-in-my-username/95235/5 "2001-11-26T16:40:20Z")
I’m trying to figure out why I came in this thread. Good to know a reason to do so does exist.
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### Author:  [@Why\_A\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Why_A_Duck)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2001, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/caps-in-my-username/95235/6 "2001-11-26T17:51:14Z")
Well,
I just started a thread over in MPSIMS, and on the new thread/reply page, in the box where your user name is usually pre-filled in, I changed mine to all lowercase and it shows up like that on the forum page, but normal (Mixed Case) inside the thread.
This post should be all lowercase too.
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### Author:  [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2001, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/caps-in-my-username/95235/7 "2001-11-26T21:33:09Z")
And so it is. Now that’s WEIRD.
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### Author:  [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2001, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/caps-in-my-username/95235/8 "2001-11-27T15:53:14Z")
I logged out and signed back in as IaMpUnHa just to see if there’d be any change or denial of access or whatnot.
Evidently there’s no change. ::shrug::
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### Author:  [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2001, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/caps-in-my-username/95235/9 "2001-11-27T16:59:40Z")
Yes there is.
On the front page the last post to this thread was by IaMpUnHa.
Now it’s by yojimbo 🙂
Start a test thread to see it yourself.
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### Author:  [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2001, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/caps-in-my-username/95235/10 "2001-11-27T17:04:04Z")
Reading your post again I may have taken you up wrong.
If so please ignore little olde tired hungry overworked me.
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### Author:  [@Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helen_s_Eidolon)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2001, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/caps-in-my-username/95235/11 "2001-11-28T21:19:48Z")
Just testing…
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### Author:  [@Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helen_s_Eidolon)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2001, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/caps-in-my-username/95235/12 "2001-11-28T21:22:56Z")
Uh huh.
The name will appear like normal (like how you signed up?) in the thread, but in “last posted to” and, I assume, thread started columns on the forum page, the name appears how it was typed in that time.
How confusing.