Title case is a terrible default

ozbargainsam on 04/04/2021 - 15:47

A forum/community as refined and mature as this can appreciate this feedback:

Title case is a sin. Please stop it.

I'll use the example used to highlight capitalisation and comma use:

I helped my uncle jack off the horse

I Helped my Uncle Jack off the Horse

Totally ruins the joke.

But more seriously, capitalisation is only for the first word of a sentence, or for proper nouns. Once You Start Capitalising Random Words, you start to destroying meaning.

I ate an Apple in the Apple Store.

Did I eat an iPhone or what?

Side note: I have actually noticed this earlier and I did pedantically go back and de-titled cased my forum post after a certain Power User 'fixed' it.

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Comments

  • PaKoRa on 06/04/2021 - 09:48

    nani!

  • SF3 on 06/04/2021 - 09:51

    OzLanguageEdu…

  • Vote for Pedro on 06/04/2021 - 10:34
    +2

    A woman, without her man, is nothing.

    A woman: without her, man is nothing.

    Also, sentence case please. :-)

    • capslock janitor on 06/04/2021 - 10:50
      -3

      A woman without her man, is nothing.

  • jv on 06/04/2021 - 10:42
    +4

    pERSONALLY, i pREFER tO uSE iNVERSE tITLE cASE. iT iS mORE rELAXING tO tHE eYE aN dOES nOT rUIN jOKES.

    • Tnetennba on 06/04/2021 - 11:17

      We'll hold you to this, jv. I expect to see inverse title case in all of your future comments, or you're a liar.

      • jv on 06/04/2021 - 11:26
        +2

        …syadseuT no toN

  • Aneurism on 06/04/2021 - 13:05
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    • MrFrugalSpend on 06/04/2021 - 22:09
      +2

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      • jv on 07/04/2021 - 00:23
        +1 

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    • Ghost47 on 09/04/2021 - 10:42

      Username checks out.

  • myusername on 06/04/2021 - 19:01
    +2

    you're on ozbargain what do you expect?

    copious amounts troll posts

    toxic community

    members spamming shovel ware as bargains to increase post counts'

    people threatening people with legal action over posts here

    welcome to the internet, your opinion doesn't matter, and mob mentality ranks supreme

    some days i think the community here is becoming as toxic as whirlpool.

    best not to interact or comment

    • jv on 07/04/2021 - 00:26

      best not to interact or comment

      Hmmmmm…..

      "Hypocrisy is the practice of engaging in the same behavior or activity for which one criticizes another"

      • myusername on 11/04/2021 - 09:57

        it's an honour in itself having the esteemed jv comment on your post

    • Ghost47 on 09/04/2021 - 10:43

      There are good people here but the few toxic people really ruin the community. I think these people have been banned from whirlpool so they’re turning OzBargain into OzWhingePoolBargain.

      Instead of just moving along they prefer to throw stones. Just look at the thread on the guy asking for help buying a diamond ring lol, he got torn to shreds lol.

      • myusername on 11/04/2021 - 09:56

        my honest thoughts exactly

  • realaaa on 07/04/2021 - 00:07
    -1

    wow

    • jv on 07/04/2021 - 00:27
      +1

      ʍoʍ

      • GnarlyKnuckles on 07/04/2021 - 19:44
        +1

        Best not to mention your mum here on OzB jv …

  • Heaps for Cheaps on 07/04/2021 - 09:06

    lol

  • [Deactivated] on 07/04/2021 - 10:52

    At least this important matter will get Covid off the headlines.

  • Dreamcast on 07/04/2021 - 11:40

    You Must Be Fun At Party'S

  • belongsinforums on 07/04/2021 - 14:37

    How do i delete other people's posts?

    • GnarlyKnuckles on 07/04/2021 - 19:53
      -1

      Erm … obviously you can't "delete other people's posts".

      If you mean that you don't want to ever see posts from certain peeps, I think that if you 'block' them you will no longer see any of their posts and they will no longer see any of yours. I've never done it (I surmise that I can just scroll past anything I don't want to read) so I'm not sure if it 'works' … but I presume it does. It seems a bit of a silly thing to do though, kinda' like imposing a form of censorship onto yourself/what you can and can't see. You might find that some dialogues stopped making logical sense to you, because you had 'blocked yourself' from seeing some of the posts they contained/were built on.

      • belongsinforums on 08/04/2021 - 00:10
        -1

        Calm Down Twas A Joke

        • GnarlyKnuckles on 10/04/2021 - 00:28

          Chuckle, OK bells … I reckon you may need to check the definition of 'joke'. I'm petty sure that jokes are supposed to be humorous, at least to some peeps; rather than pedestrian six-word questions that for all intents and purposes appear to be a genuine question that is not the least bit entertaining.

          Juz sayin' …

          If you ar trying to make 'jokes', don't 'calm down' … Amp it up

          ;-)

  • chiuy on 07/04/2021 - 17:17

    *rolls eyes.

    Title case is fine for titles.

  • therealoptimus on 08/04/2021 - 11:30
    -1

    Not much love from Moderators unfortunately. https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/615670#comment-10311989 Check the edits.

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