Prevent ALL CAPS Thread Titles? (2 Viewers)

[sonic8]

@Jon, is there any option to prevent thread titles in ALL CAPS?
I got the impression that these are used much more frequently in recent weeks and I find them pretty annoying, as they are hard to read and create a fake (but probably deliberate) impression of increased importance/urgency.

 

[Gasman]

prevent all caps title xenforo - Google Search

 

[Minty]

MyThreadTitle = StrConv(MyThreadTitle , vbProperCase) ?

 

[sonic8]

@Minty , I have my doubts whether a VBA function call will solve the problem in the forum.

 

[jdraw]

IP sources of caps seems to be Africa, but there are others.

 

[Gasman]

@Minty , I have my doubts whether a VBA function call will solve the problem in the forum.

Seems very easy.

Capital Letters

Sorry if this has already been asked but in the admin cp how do I turn off full posts written in capital letters? Lots of members keep posting thread titles and posts ALL IN CAPITAL LETTERS and I don't like it. I know in vbulletin there was an option to disable it and it made the First Letter...

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[NauticalGent]

@Jon, is there any option to prevent thread titles in ALL CAPS?
I got the impression that these are used much more frequently in recent weeks and I find them pretty annoying, as they are hard to read and create a fake (but probably deliberate) impression of increased importance/urgency.

As trivial as it sounds, I myself will ignore them straight-away. Although am sure the poster did not want to be rude, forum etiquette is so ingrained in me that it is a reflex.

 

[Jon]

@Jon, is there any option to prevent thread titles in ALL CAPS?
I got the impression that these are used much more frequently in recent weeks and I find them pretty annoying, as they are hard to read and create a fake (but probably deliberate) impression of increased importance/urgency.

Sometimes you need caps in a title. e.g. USA.

 

[The_Doc_Man]

Typically, the members who abuse this particular problem can be identified easily. Simply reply to them that an all-caps title or excess use of all-caps will tend to DECREASE their odds of being answered.

 

[sonic8]

Sometimes you need caps in a title. e.g. USA.

Sure, but not ALL caps. If a thread's title would be just "USA" and nothing else, it would also be a poor title.

Simply reply to them that an all-caps title or excess use of all-caps will tend to DECREASE their odds of being answered.

At least two of the all-caps aficionados received such hints and managed to completely ignore them.

 

[Jon]

There are no options for an unspecified number of caps.

 

[Isaac]

I'd say it's mildly annoying, but I take a different tack. 1st, it's only mildly annoying. I strongly doubt anyone is dumb enough to think that Case will actually get their question answered faster.

I think that from a technical career, I've become mostly indifferent to case, and actually have gotten to where I lean more towards using one case exclusively when coding (it's been not-gently suggested to me by expert SQL guys to do the same, although I do not currently follow it at my job, but only because Redgate changes it).

Thus, to me, someone who puts a title exclusively in all large caps is no 'worse' than people who refuse to capitalize--putting everything in smaller case. In this scenario, I could say they are being just as sloppy as the all-caps guy is being obnoxious.

Plus, as Jon implied just now, how would the 'Solution' decide whether a limited use of all caps, such as a title reading, "How to use WHEN EXISTS in SQL SERVER" was appropriate, or not?

I think it comes more down to style and bias than initially seems like.

 

[AccessBlaster]

This might be a first world problem.

 

[jdraw]

There is another option to attempting to separately converting all Upper to some sort of proper case.
Although currently being ignored, purposely or unknowingly, perhaps we could "teach/advise" the OP(s) that
ALL CAPITALIZATION is similar to shouting and is considered poor/bad netiquette. Much like highlighting every WORD or larger fonts.. or meaningless color changes.

 

[Isaac]

As long as we devote at least as much effort (I would think more) toward the yet-more-basic grammatical rules like spelling and generally trying to say things correctly ... then that sounds good to me.

From some of these posters, I think deciding when to capitalize is the least of their problems.

 

[sonic8]

There are no options for an unspecified number of caps.

An option to check for no lower case letters at all would do.
My intention was to inquire/discuss whether there is a suitable and readily available functionality in Xenforo to help with this. If there is none, or you don't like it, the matter is settled for me.

 

[Jon]

There are no options.