# Caps Test **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [March 20, 2009, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/caps-test/490162 "2009-03-20T14:33:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2009, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/caps-test/490162/1 "2009-03-20T14:33:14Z")
Betelgeuse betelgeuse betelgeuse! ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2009, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/caps-test/490162/2 "2009-03-20T14:34:18Z")
Weird; all caps is disabled? WTFWTFWTF W T F ? ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2009, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/caps-test/490162/3 "2009-03-20T14:40:02Z")
TEST TEST TEST. TEST TEST test, Test TEST test. TEST ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2009, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/caps-test/490162/4 "2009-03-20T14:41:05Z")
Test test test. Test test test. Test test test. (this message is entirely in capital letters) ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2009, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/caps-test/490162/5 "2009-03-20T14:41:22Z")
Omg! Blahblah blahblah! ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2009, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/caps-test/490162/6 "2009-03-20T14:44:39Z")
Test, test; test: Test. Test? Test! Test test test again all caps as posted ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2009, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/caps-test/490162/7 "2009-03-20T15:42:47Z")
Yeah, they toggled something just in the last day or so. What’s weird is that I’d put a capital letter in brackets in the middle of some material I was quoting (“blah blah blah … \*t was like this…”) and it switched it to lower case. ETA: did it again. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2009, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/caps-test/490162/8 "2009-03-20T19:36:38Z")
I think the reason the “I” in brackets was converted to lower case is that it was interpreted as the vB code for italic. If that’s true, there should be an uppercase Z in brackets here: [Z] A bit of additional weirdness: quoting the previous message returned the uppercase “I” in the brackets. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2009, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/caps-test/490162/9 "2009-03-20T21:28:10Z")
> [@rowrrbazzle](#): > > I think the reason the “I” in brackets was converted to lower case is that it was interpreted as the vB code for italic. Well that makes sense, at least. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2009, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/caps-test/490162/10 "2009-03-22T09:54:57Z")
Beetle juice beetle juice BEETLE JUICE! ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2009, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/caps-test/490162/11 "2009-03-22T16:11:43Z")
I HAVE NO CAPS AND I MUST SCREAM [ALL CAPS] oh, you mean that’s not the title? [No Caps] ---
**Author:** ![Nametag](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nametag/32/406_2.png) [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/caps-test/490162/12 "2009-03-23T04:36:32Z")
I thought all-caps posting had always been disabled…?