+as77 Posted January 19, 2005 Share Posted January 19, 2005 I noticed that when I write the word Geocaching with a lowercase g in a post, the forum engine modifies it and capitalizes the G. Is this a new setting or I just haven't noticed it so far? (I'm not talking about the capitalization of thread titles; the modification happens inside posts.) And, question two, why does this word have to be capitalized? It's not a proper noun. Link to comment
+Jamie Z Posted January 19, 2005 Share Posted January 19, 2005 Geocaching Hmmm.. Geocaching. You're right. Very odd. Like Base Ball. I don't care for that at all. Jamie Link to comment
+Stunod Posted January 19, 2005 Share Posted January 19, 2005 Whats next? A spell-checker? Link to comment
+nfa Posted January 19, 2005 Share Posted January 19, 2005 Geocaching navicaching, terracaching, hamstercaching, tupperwarecaching geocachinng All you have to do is mispell geocachiing or refer to it by another site's name and it won't be capitalized...problem solved Link to comment
+The Leprechauns Posted January 19, 2005 Share Posted January 19, 2005 initially capitalizing Geocaching is all part of a greater conspiracy, a part of the ongoing evil furtherance of subversive religion masquerading as science. soon, but very gradually so as not to be noticeable, other common words will always be capitalized. why is this, you may ask. the purpose is to drive flask absolutely nuts. Link to comment
Jeremy Posted January 19, 2005 Share Posted January 19, 2005 Interesting. Actually I was working to correct the whole Geocaching thing by removing the capital C in the middle. Apparently it doesn't do as exact of a match as I thought. Of course I'm digging the conspiracy angle. Maybe I'll leave it to create some more ire in the forums. Link to comment
CoyoteRed Posted January 19, 2005 Share Posted January 19, 2005 I was going to suggest something, but I might give someone an idea and then everytime someone types "CR" it's changed to "The One Who is Officially Ignored" or some such. Link to comment
ju66l3r Posted January 19, 2005 Share Posted January 19, 2005 I think The One Who is Officially Ignored has implicitly indicated a good point. Link to comment
+The Leprechauns Posted January 19, 2005 Share Posted January 19, 2005 I think The One Who is Officially Ignored has implicitly indicated a good point. Well, you'd probably want Geocaching to be automatically changed to 630[A[#1N6. I would not like that. Link to comment
ju66l3r Posted January 19, 2005 Share Posted January 19, 2005 I think The One Who is Officially Ignored has implicitly indicated a good point. Well, you'd probably want Geocaching to be automatically changed to 630[A[#1N6. I would not like that. You misjudge me. I want whatever someone wrote to be what I see and not double-spoken by an automated filter. Besides...I don't like typing in 1337-speak, even though my screen name suggests it. Link to comment
+Divine Posted January 19, 2005 Share Posted January 19, 2005 I don't like autocorrections. Let people make their own mistakes and edit them out if they can and are willing to. Geocaching is IMO a common noun, which definitely shouldn't be capitalized in the middle of a sentence, and I simply don't understand the idea behind the thread topic capitalization; replacing the poster's intentions with bad grammar. What next, autoreplacing my wrong opinions with Right Ones? Link to comment
+The Leprechauns Posted January 19, 2005 Share Posted January 19, 2005 I think The One Who is Officially Ignored has implicitly indicated a good point. Well, you'd probably want Geocaching to be automatically changed to 630[A[#1N6. I would not like that. You misjudge me. I want whatever someone wrote to be what I see and not double-spoken by an automated filter. Besides...I don't like typing in 1337-speak, even though my screen name suggests it. 7#4|\|Z ph0r [|_4r1phY1|\|6. Link to comment
Jeremy Posted January 19, 2005 Share Posted January 19, 2005 Oh. The easily baited. I switched it back. Link to comment
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