WHO is REALLY harmed by using ALL CAPS in a SUBJECT LINE?

[mopaul]

i can UNDERSTAND practicing CIVILITY and basic GOOD MANNERS when speaking to PEOPLE. but actually we are not speaking TO people, but TYPING to people, via KEYBOARD. WHY are some people ACTUALLY OFFENDED by someone using ALL CAPS? what's the ACTUAL HARM if any?
are you so OVERSENSITIVE that a little thing like someone using ALL CAPS totally throws you off and makes you hit the ALERT BUTTON?

COME ON already, the TRUTH is, NO ONE is hurt in ANY way by reading a sentence with ALL CAPS. they are just SYMBOLS that relay MEANINGS to the brain. repeat: ALL CAPS CANNOT HARM YOU.

neither are you hurt when someone fails to use proper punctuation, or spells albuquerque wrong.

so...LIGHTEN UP cap bashers. USING ALL CAPS CAN BE very EFFECTIVE.
when you smash your tongue in a drawer, you don't yell, 'dammit'...you scream 'DAMMIT!!!' and what if DU were on fire?....would you yell, 'fire', or, 'FIRE!'?

[Skittles]

1. ME, ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

I F***ING AM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Caution]

2. ME!

It makes my inner ears hurt! I've been on the internet for so long (12 years...USENET and gopher prior to WWW and I'm totally conditioned to see all caps as SCREAMING!!!!

[JitterbugPerfume]

4. using all caps

misspelling words, wrong punctuation,

it is all small stuff

my advice to "critics"

QUIT 'CHER BITCHIN'

[Feanorcurufinwe]

3. The person who posts it is harmed because they look like an idiot

The person who posts it is harmed because they look like an idiot. Who knows, maybe someone dumb enough to smash their tongue in a drawer.

[Nobody]

5. SHHHHHHHH!!!!! Stop shouting, I have a hangover.

I've been spending way too much time in the bar.

[Green Mountain Dem]

6. when you get to be....

my age you will APPRECIATE ALL CAPS !!!! I am so sick of everything getting smaller as I grow older, and without Viagra I don't get to do much besides reading posts on DU....so the BIGGER the BETTER.

[newyawker99]

11. Congrats roninvt!! 200 posts

:toast:

[TrogL]

7. Anyone trying to read quickly

ALL CAPS are almost illegible.

In Internet manners they are considered shouting.

It shouldn't be too hard to program a filter to reject ALL CAPS in subjects longer than one word (so you can still have acronyms).

Maybe I'll suggest it.

[supernova]

8. Yes, CAPS IS THE INTERNET EQUIVALENT

of

SHOUTING

:P

It's also hard to read a message done completely in caps. So, while getting your nose out of joint about a (relatively) minor breach of netiquette, may not be the point, getting others to understand you is far more the point.

[JackSwift]

9. Because proper use of lower case letters

is far easier to read. JackSwift, former newspaper editor and occasional typesetter.

[tarkus]

10. The general public and the integrity of the poster.

[underpants]

12. SO THIS ONE TIME AT BANDCAMP.................

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