Outlaw posts entirely in bold/uppercase letters? - Progressive Rock Music Forum

I COMPLETELY AGREE

"The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse." - Zappa

^ ok, but when a member does all the posts in bold/uppercase/increased font size, it loses any useful meaning.

BTW: It's banned in many other forums, too. It causes other people to also increase their font size/writing uppercase etc..

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Uppercase - sure. Italics(Yukorin! Pinch

) also. But bold doesn't bother me that much...

last.fm

Poor El Böthy.

I always pictured people screaming when they post like that and it's actually kind of funny. Tongue

I VOTED NO AS YOU'RE CRAMPING MY STYLe

(the lowercase e is so that this post doesn't seem like it's entirely written in uppercase)

italics are needed on a music forum as the proper way to quote a title is by typing (the title, not the author) it with italics. to be more specific, the overall title should be written in italics (the book's name, the album's name, the magazine's name, etc) and any inside title should be written normally but with quotation marks. also the author's name should be spelled with uppercase letters, but this is not mandatory.

an example:

John DOE, "Aesthetics today" in Journal of Philosphy, nr. 1/2006 pp. 21-44 (article quotation)

PINK FLOYD, "Time", Dark Side of the Moon, 1973 (song quotation)

Neica NIMENI, Tratat de nimicologie, cap. 1 - "La inceput a fost nimicul" pp. 3-30, Bucharest, 2007 (chapter quotation)

back to topic, i wouldn't like losing "bold" and "italic" options from post formating as i sometimes need to make a bold statement or to define a more subtle nuance. i don't use capitals but enjoy when some others play with them, it can be funny. i see you haven't put colours in the poll, if you did that i would have suggest to also include Peter Rideout for outlawing

How would it work Mike? Deletion of the offending posts? I might volunteer for that job! Evil Smile

Snow Dog wrote:

How would it work Mike? Deletion of the offending posts? I might volunteer for that job! Evil Smile

yes, purge them from the archives!!!

No seriously, I would suggest that an announcement is made and a new forum rule is added, and people how continue to write such posts are warned just like they would be for any other violation of forum rules.

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^ of course I don't mind "creative formatting" like in your response above ... I'm only talking about people who use CAPS/bold all the time, with no apparent reason.

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Philéas wrote:

Yes. It looks neater if everyone uses the standard font without modifying it.

This would be a valid remark if there were not these huge signatures at the bottom of most posts.

I say Mike's idea for a new forum rule should be implemented.

let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword

Poll Question: Outlaw posts entirely in bold/uppercase letters?
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
Yes	17	[54.84%]
No	14	[45.16%]
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