STOP YELLING: The Flickr Newbie Muzzle
ONE OF THE THINGS THAT EXPERIENCED INTERNET USERS HATE IS WHEN SOMEONE TYPES IN ALL CAPS… IT FEELS LIKE THE PERSON IS YELLING!
I noticed on Flickr that they have implemented anti-yelling technology - so if you enter a comment in all caps it automatically changes to lower-case and even attempts to capitalize words based on sentence position.
BEFORE:
TESTING COMMENT. WOW! IT WORKS!
AFTER:
Testing comment. Wow! It works!
This is cool, although if you really want to type in all caps it won’t let you. In my mind it’s a good tradeoff.
Update: it would have been even better if they had provided a notification that this was being done, and perhaps a way to override it if you really wanted all caps.
April 14th, 2006 at 4:45 pm
SO IF I TYPE IN ALL CAPS IT WILL CAST IT TO LOWER CASE?
April 14th, 2006 at 4:49 pm
YES IT WILL!!!
May 2nd, 2006 at 10:58 am
It’s not just comments, but applying descriptions to your own photos. I found this out the hard way when it took me about 6 attempts to describe a photo. I eventually gave up and left 2 words as lowercase.
November 7th, 2007 at 8:32 pm
Interesting technology, but what if you really want to shout? Or write words which are meant to be all caps? What about acronyms?
I do hate shouting though