Board Thread:Administration/@comment-4832646-20140401205802/@comment-4849011-20140508015141

I believe that using all caps can get old quickly and is often unnecessary, but I also know that sometimes caps are appropriate. Therefore I say don't outright ban all caps; just restrict it. For instance, have a rule that a story can't be entirely in caps (regardless of its length), and maybe extend it to say that only a certain percentage of the overall story can be in all caps.

Let's say you have a pasta with ten paragraphs. The first four paragraphs have no words in caps (unless it's an abbreviation). In the fifth paragraph, there are 1-3 words in caps. In the sixth, one sentence is in caps. Paragraphs seven through nine gradually increase the amount of text in caps. Finally, in the last paragraph, most or all of the text is in caps. This example uses caps to convey increasing emotion, but doesn't overuse them.