Posting in all CAPS

[crashhelmet]

Because it seems like people don't know how to write properly anymore. Spelling sucks, punctuation usage is horrible, sentence structure is out the window. It shows laziness and ignorance. Don't they teach this stuff in school anymore? Or is no one paying any attention.

Not to be one to point out grammatical errors, but your'e guilty of a few here yourself.

As long as I can read what they're trying to say, I could care less if it's typed like this, LIKE THIS, or LiKe ThIs.

To be honest, the whole "Grammar/Spelling/Typing Nazi" thing has just gotten out of hand. People so desperately want to flame someone for whatever they can, that they resort to their typing. Just because they appear to be ignorant, doesn't mean that they are or that their arguments are invalid.

CH

[Lace Neil Singer]

I personally will overlook a couple of typos, misspelled words, shortened words etc, as long as the rest of the post is readable. However, I am not going to bother reading a post which is basically just a mishmash of badly spelt chatspeak which steals the Great Wall of China. That is the equivilent of not only wearing clothes that are covered with food stains, but also smelling as tho you just peed your pants.

Yes, you have every right to wear your curry stained t-shirt and your pee smelling jeans. No, people should not judge you, and they should listen to what you have to say. But sadly, you shouldn't hold your breath.

I agree that some people are nitpicky to the extreme; such as people who home in on a poorly spelt word or typo and concentrate on that, ignoring the point made in the sentence. However, that does not excuse a person from being lazy and typing like a moron. Both are bad in my book and will be given equal amounts of contempt.

[Lachrymose]

Lachrymose you cannot be serious

Nope.

http://www.google.com/search?q=cruise+control+for+cool

[LexiaFira]

crashhelmet. honestly? because all the times I have tried to be nice to this family member in public gatherings or face to face she has been a b*tch to me yet sucks up or plays nice to me online so I finally told her go piss up a rope. So when she does try to friend me on facebook I told her no and please stop posting in caps. I stopped trying to be nice and I think she does it not just because it annoys but because she REALLY doesn't know better.

And Lachrymose, I did not know that little net meme and no...it may be funny but not to me cause I am not cool, never was and made it my goal to super glue hands to lockers of the popular kids who thought it important enough to publicly humiliate me. not a threat but a phase mind you

[Stormraven]

I try very hard not to be a grammar or spelling nazi. That's mostly because I've seen the truth of the meme that when you point out someone else's errors, you're very likely to make one or more of your own. There's also the simple fact that I don't know why they're writing like that. English could be their second (or third) language, they could be dyslexic, they could be fighting off a kitten on the keyboard, or any of a dozen other possibilities.

That's why, if I see a poster with persistent grammar or spelling problems, I just ignore them. I don't throw my two cents in, I don't threadcrap to show off my grammatical endowments, and I don't try to correct people.

I have done, of course, and I probably will in the future, but I try to limit it to times when pointing such things out is more amusing than vicious - while also remaining aware that what I think of as amusing may not be to someone else.

[Lace Neil Singer]

I have done, of course, and I probably will in the future, but I try to limit it to times when pointing such things out is more amusing than vicious - while also remaining aware that what I think of as amusing may not be to someone else.

In which case, a picture is worth a thousand words. In the case of a person posting a huge block of text, the following picture does nicely: http://i52.tinypic.com/2v1w6q9.png

[telecom_goddess]

I've noticed something interesting in terms of typing in all caps and whether or not it's easier to read. On printed paper, double spaced it's easier to read copy if it's in all caps (news, commercial copy etc)

But on a screen it's a nightmare and is much easier to read when normal capitalization rules are used.

[Boozy]

Why is it annoying? It's just text on a screen.

I find posts made in all caps to be annoying. If you don't, that's fine too. All it means is that one of us will read the post made in all caps, and the other one of us will not.

I agree with you in that I don't think it's something worth getting upset over. If I see a post in all caps, or with very poor spelling or grammar, or in a wall-of-text, I just don't read it. And nor will many, many others.

That's something all-caps posters and the like should keep in mind. Do as you will, but if you want to be heard and taken seriously, you have to be conscious of how you present yourself with the written word.

[evillebee]

My MIL types in all CAPS all the time and I find it not only annoying, but hard on the eyes to read.

[smileyeagle1021]

I know many deaf people will type in caps lock because the old TTY machines were caps only and that is what they are used to... 99% of the people who do it though are just, well, annoying as hell and need to be flailed with a trout.

[Sarah Valentine]

Is chat speak that thing where the person puts numers in place of letters, if so that really pisses me off. It looks like the persons cat jumped up on the keyboard and had a seizure. Another one I hate is when people use mostly initials for the entire conversation or text or email, please stop it how hard is it to type the whole word, it's not like it'll kill you.

[LexiaFira]

numbers in place of words is called "leet" aka 1337 or l33t
chat/text speak since it takes up money and time to text it all abbreviations were created but yeah this
"whr r u" or "l8tr" are annoying as well
unless the terminology has changed

[Ginger Tea]

sorry for only reading the first page, but it just reminded me of someone who no longer visits a programming forum I lurk in, no longer program in the niche lingo used, but I like to keep tabs on some of the works in progress.

one guy, I kid you not, broke his sentances into lines, in my head I was reading it like William Shatner

how do i

make a

cube

that when

the mouse ...

how the hell is anyone meant to find the time to work that out and then post an example code and then decipher his butchered attempt to "fix" it to suit his needs

[blas87]

That would annoy me, too. I forgot that. I guess I don't see that a whole lot on here or CS.

Nearly everyone is fine with spelling/grammar and I don't recall anyone being a CAPS monster. There are a few people who cannot spell or it looks like they are typing while intoxicated. Those are the posts I tend to skip over because it hurts trying to read it. I'll never fault anyone for making a boo boo or not knowing how to spell a word on a forum, but it's hard to take a person seriously when they won't use a spell-checker if they are that bad at spelling.

[Lace Neil Singer]

Also, I don't buy the often heard "I'm dyslexic!" excuse, simply cuz my older brother is dyslexic and he always checks thru his posts on Facebook and emails before posting to make sure it's correctly spelled. Refusing to do so and citing dyslexia is just lazy.