Why Are Caps Rude?

all upper-case is not accepted on the net.
all lower-case is, although perhaps frowned upon by some.

they are equally easy to type. upper-case requires also pressing the caps-lock key, so it is more total effort.

why not just use all lower case?

imtoolazytotypethefullsizethissizeismuchmucheasier thisiseasiertoowhydoihavetoalwaysuseblack?

idontlikehavingtousepunctuationitssomucheasierandfasterjusttowritelikethisidontseewhyanybodywouldhaveaproblemwithitdoyouifyoudoyoumustbeschitzophrenic

AH, THEY’RE 1920’S STYLE “DEATH RAYS”.

please don’t encourage this. that is also more difficult to read.

it really comes down to: (IMHO) what is your intent?

is your intent to be read, understood, communicate effectively w/the most people

or

merely to post something that if some one reads it, kewl, if not, kewl.

(and if it’s the latter, I would hope you’d understand why I won’t bother)

:confused:

I’m not sure if this was meant to be funny. It is, though.

hey, I capitalized the “I” each time…

(yea, I noticed that afterwards, too)

Where’s e.e. cummings when you need him?

iF yOu ThInK tHaT’s BaD tRy ReAdInG tHiS!

Don’t know that this condition has ever occurred.

I thought this was going to be about baseball hats. I have always wondered why wearing a baseball hat indoors is considered rude.

That’ll teach me to go by my faint memory of the Jargon File. Guess I’ll have to re-read to keep it swapped in…

He’s dead, Jim.

HeY-cO:mad:rN,dO**:rolleyes:g**!MaN**?wOuLd**):cool:YoUlIke**$To@ReSpOnD*&:slight_smile:tO**%tHe^PaNdo:confused:RaSbOx>YoU<oPeNeD*?**:stuck_out_tongue:

the very definition of some one with too much time on their hands.

No longer than the time you took for your 4 posts on this board thus far…

I just wanted to know if the OP bitched and ran or if he still has the ability to defend his POV…

wasn’t trying to be snotty. it apparently came out that way.

As bad as the board was on AOL, many years ago, at least AOL had twitfilters.

Can we get twitfilters here?

ack! l33t!

THANK YOU FOR ALL THE RESPONSES.