# Name in Caps = Shouting
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-in-caps-shouting/116723
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**Created:** [June 30, 2002, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-in-caps-shouting/116723 "2002-06-30T18:32:34Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@barbitu8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/barbitu8)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2002, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-in-caps-shouting/116723/1 "2002-06-30T18:32:34Z")
Is this true? See [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?postid=2233827#post2233827](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?postid=2233827#post2233827)
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### Author:  [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2002, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-in-caps-shouting/116723/2 "2002-06-30T19:32:17Z")
Well, typing in all-caps is, besides fucking annoying, widely regarded as the Internet equivalent of shouting.
But seeing as you only applied it to a name, my scientific answer is: hell if I know!
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### Author:  [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2002, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-in-caps-shouting/116723/3 "2002-06-30T20:33:52Z")
It’s probably an individual thing. It kinda bugs me, and I was just going on the assumption that it was bad netiquette. But hey, if no one else cares that much, then I’m not gonna worry about it anymore–no need for me to be flying off the handle because of something like that.
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### Author:  [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2002, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-in-caps-shouting/116723/5 "2002-07-01T02:23:48Z")
Well, reading the thread, yeah, it kinda jumped out at me, like, “Whoa! Why is he shouting at Ultrafilter?” even though I knew ahead of time, from this thread, that there was going to be a capitalized name coming up at me.
So yeah, I guess capitalizing does count as shouting, even with names.
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### Author:  [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2002, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-in-caps-shouting/116723/6 "2002-07-01T16:14:08Z")
[Online netiquette uncensored](http://www.onlinenetiquette.com/courtesy1.html)
> [@](#):
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> [Rule] 1. Never type in all caps.
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### Author:  [@barbitu8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/barbitu8)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2002, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-in-caps-shouting/116723/7 "2002-07-02T22:46:19Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Duck Duck Goose \*
> \*\*even though I knew ahead of time, from this thread, that there was going to be a capitalized name coming up at me.
> \*\*
Aren’t the initials of someone’s name capitalized?
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### Author:  [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2002, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-in-caps-shouting/116723/8 "2002-07-03T02:05:47Z")
says **b** arbitu8. Oh, the irony! 😉
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### Author:  [@barbitu8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/barbitu8)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2002, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-in-caps-shouting/116723/9 "2002-07-05T21:22:22Z")
Well, \*\* Arnold **, you made the first letter of my name bold, but did not capitalize it. Anyway, \*\* Duck Duck Goose** uses capital initial letters in her name. So, when I refer to her by her initials, wouldn’t capitalizing them be correct? I mean why should I type \*\* ddg \*\* when her initials are \*\* DDG \*\*?
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### Author:  [@Iguana\_Boy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iguana_Boy)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2002, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-in-caps-shouting/116723/10 "2002-07-07T00:02:36Z")
**DDG** would be the correct abbreviation of **Duck Duck Goose’s** name because those letters in her name are capitalised - IMHO. In the same way **IB** would be correct for me, although I wouldn’t be bothered if someone put **ib**.
If my whole name was put in capitals though, I wouldn’t think it shouting necessarily, but it would look odd.
I always like to bold someone’s name, but not everyone does. I think that’s just a matter of taste.
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### Author:  [@JBERGES](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JBERGES)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2002, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-in-caps-shouting/116723/11 "2002-07-07T22:29:00Z")
[paraniod] Why is everybody yelling at me!![/paranoid]
::sees his own name::
oh.
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### Author:  [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2002, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-in-caps-shouting/116723/12 "2002-07-08T19:27:02Z")
**barbitu8** , I think that **Noodles** ’ use of bold was just meant to emphasize the fact that you spell your name in lowercase, and hence it’s ironic for you to be talking about capitalizing initials.