# Proposed rule: No textspeak; capitals are mandatory

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**Created:** [March 30, 2012, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proposed-rule-no-textspeak-capitals-are-mandatory/617293 "2012-03-30T16:03:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2012, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proposed-rule-no-textspeak-capitals-are-mandatory/617293/64 "2012-03-31T06:25:23Z")

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How many people, reading and posting in this very new thread, are thinking: “Yakuza!”

And I’m thinking: If there were such a rule, how fast would Yakuza have been told to knock it off, or worse, been gagged or banned? Problem being, that squelches a certain degree of… how shall I call it? … _distinctive personality_ that some members may bring to this board in their posts. He definitely brings come unique views, and some of his threads have stimulated much on-going discussion (not necessarily all of it amicable, but still…) Forcing him, of all people, into a mold would just be _so wrong._ (Note, by the way, how many other posters in Yakuza’s threads have adopted his conventions when posting responses in those threads. Hey, can’t we still have a little fun here?)

That said, perhaps offenses at that level should just be best left to the moderators’ discretion, capricious though that sometimes is. Note, for example, that **Marley23** is now insisting that Yakuza spell out his words when he posts elsewhere:

> [@The Struggle For Financial Comfort Needs To Stop](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-struggle-for-financial-comfort-needs-to-stop/617243/19):
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> You’re not allowed to call people trolls unless you’re in the Pit, and **Yakuza** ’s habits are not worth that kind of energy. But what the heck: **Yakuza** , I’m giving you an official instruction here. If you’re going to post in Great Debates, make the effort to spell out the word “to” correctly.

(I’m more bothered by that off-topic mini-flame-war that’s broken out between two other people in one of his threads, having nothing much to do with anything Yakuza ever wrote.)

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