[RESOLVED] ???[CAPS]??? becomes lower case???

http://www.vbforums.com/showpost.php...91&postcount=7

I posted ???[RESOLVED]??? All in uppercase.
Why does it change to lower?

Hmmm,
Same thing here:
http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?t=490529

But not in FF???

???[caps]???

It lowercases if it is the only text in the text area.
else it remains uppercase.
http://www.vbforums.com/attachment.p...postid=1797398

1. can you stop spamming this thread
2. it is a spam prevention type thing

It prevents "yelling". Do you know about the Thread Resolved button?

Yes.
That is why I posted ???[RESOLVED]??? in Bobalandi's thread:

http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...91#post3017391

My post there was questioning if his issue was resolved, since he apparently had his solution.

I was shocked that it went to lowercase.

As to posting a second post here to illustrate the effect, and a third post to explain what the second post implied against the first:

Since the first post here in FF stayed in caps
I made a test in the test area:

http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?t=490529

Its initial post saw the caps go to lower case.

So I came back here and edited the first post to reflect my observation that it seems to occur in at least 2 forums, but not in FF.

But then I went back to the test thread, performed some more tests, and observed that the Uppercase->Lowercase phenomena only happened if the affected text was (almost) the only text in the post.

However, I could see that FF might have special rules that might prevent it from happening, so I posted the second post here in FF as it required to be the only text in a post, and I felt that Editing the first post to just a single line of text would make this a truly meaningless thread.

And, as the second post did illustrate the phenomena, thus negating my hypotheses in the first post that the issue apparently did not occur here in FF, I had to post the 3rd post to explain why it didn't happen in my first post, and to resolve that it does even occur in FF.

And so, I shall mark this as resolved.
The Phenomena occurs when no single character in an individual post is in lowercase.

Indeed, a good Anti-Yelling method.

Only alphabetic characters are counted when checking if a post is all in uppercase. If it is, the conversion done is actually to Title Case rather than lowercase, but in your case (pun intended) having non-alphabetic characters meant that the title case effect was unobservable.

Quote:

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having non-alphabetic characters meant that the title case effect was unobservable.

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I haven't done the test yet, but I think it is:

having non-alphabetic characters adjacent and preceeding meant that the title case effect was unobservable.

:)