Board Thread:Administration/@comment-4832646-20140401205802/@comment-4832646-20140508070356

CreepyGuy2033 wrote: Princess Callie wrote: You keep using the same general example, almost as though it will change things. Which, it won't. Believe it or not, having caps doesn't represent feeling. Sure, it can provide exclamatory dialogue - so can the exclamation point alone.

That's not saying Caps are always bad. Psychosis used caps. But, Psychosis also does it better and doesn't overdo it. Caps will be at least severely limited, because letting people use caps at will is like handing a five year old a loaded gun. Yea, but it's... monotone. Like everyone is calm and they are shouting just because they want to make some attention.

Feelings like pain, must have Caps. For God's sake, that will be the most stupidest thing ever if you deny that. I'm gonna give you a minute to see what you did there on that last line. Also, "most stupidest" is not grammatically correct.

@Xelrog Do I need to point out that I haven't been arguing that caps are inherently bad writing? I've said a few times that there are ways to use them correctly and the like and even mentioned a story where caps were correctly used. Also, we aren't taking away creative freedom, we're making rules so that "creative freedom" doesn't result in stuff like this or this; crappy stuff that becomes too popular to get rid of or becomes impossible to trash.

@Necro Thank you.

@Raidra Well, what's the size of a paragraph? Is it the normal 4 - 10 sentences? In that case, that's where things start to get overdone.

@Danatblair That's pretty much what I'm trying to get at. Unfortunately, our user base is pretty much a gigantic bunch of directors. Though that's also why I think that there should at least be a limit as to how much.