It's not a bug it's a fursluginer feature

[Cougar Allen]

Well this is driving me nuts.... Apparently since the recent software upgrade it is no longer possible to title a thread in all caps. Since STR is initials *str* should be in all caps, but the software keeps converting it to Str. LAG3 appealed to me but I can't make it work either. I've been trying this and that and the other thing ... I guess I'll leave it at *str* -- that's better than Str, anyway.

 

[Keith Montgomery]

That has to be the dumdest feature I have ever seen. What could the purpose be?

 

[Nordic Viking]

That has to be the dumdest feature I have ever seen. What could the purpose be?

TO PREVENT EBAY TYPE POSTINGS, WHERE FOLKS CAPITALISE EVERY WORD.

The software does allow for Capitals if you write something afterwards like STR, the Good etc.

 

[Cougar Allen]

No doubt it was well-intentioned, but it's going to be a nuisance just like the autocensor used to be and the ten-character rule is. It's another instance of depriving everyone of the freedom to do something because a few people abuse it.

 

[Quiet Storm]

There's another feature that breaks really long words down by inserting a space after so-and-so many letters:

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

 

[Watchful]

No doubt it was well-intentioned, but it's going to be a nuisance just like the autocensor used to be and the ten-character rule is. It's another instance of depriving everyone of the freedom to do something because a few people abuse it.

I would have thunk it's an anti-auto-spam feature, since goodness knows how many spam mails *I* get that have a subject in ALL CAPS!!!! (and lots of exclamation points).

 

[Quiet Storm]

It doesn't help against the spam, it merely turns an all caps title into a regular one.

By the way, Cougar, what the hell does fursluginer mean?

 

[Cougar Allen]

It means I read a lot of Mad Magazine when I was a kid. Come to think of it, there's a German edition, isn't there? I wonder how they translate fursluginer ... probably they don't; it sounds German enough already....

 

[Quiet Storm]

Come to think of it, there's a German edition, isn't there?

Yes...

I wonder how they translate fursluginer ... probably they don't; it sounds German enough already....

...and yes. A bit anyway.

 

[MEGALON]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furshlugginer

 

[Cougar Allen]

Seems to me I've seen different spellings ... Urban Dictionary has two: furshlugginer and furshlugenner ...

 

[Esav Benyamin]

I can't remember which program restricted me to only capitalizing the first letter, but I beat it by spacing between letters and then editing it to remove the spaces. Yeah, tedious. It's a recent idiot usage, like writing NATO as Nato, that I first saw in British newspapers.

 

[Spark]

Yeah, it's an auto-correction feature to PREVENT SHOUTING OR AS I LIKE TO CALL IT VOICE IMMODULATION DISORDER. MANY PEOPLE CAN'T TELL when I am talking in a normal tone of voice.







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