Board Thread:Administration/@comment-4832646-20140401205802/@comment-24077689-20140408165719

Princess Callie wrote: Noothgrush wrote: Princess Callie wrote: You don't NEED Caps Lock. I'm seriously starting to fail to see your reasoning. Both examples you've provided, the first one has been better. The second one just gives me a headache.

How many horror novels do you read where the author uses Caps Lock? I've not read many. Example: Getrude Atherton's The Greatest Good of the Greatest Number uses no Caps. Not one. Still, there's shouting and confusion on Morton Blaire's part when deciding whether he should kill the girl by refusing the morphine or not. House of Leaves occassionally uses caps.

The last Harry Potter book used caps. Not many do, is what I'm trying to get at. As I've said, there are some. Stephen King's "It" uses caps. On the other hand, Stephen King's "It" overdescribes just about everything in it.

The thing is, they're discouraged because they are overused and abused. The reason they need to be in the Quality Standards is because of said thing. We don't have a bunch of Mark Z. Danielewskis, J.K. Rowlings, Stephen Kings, or Raymond Carvers. Many people do not use caps properly. The reason the exclamation point is there is because it is representative of excitement. And there are other ways to represent fear than screaming your head off in caps lock.

Not to mention that when it comes down to people using caps, there tends to be way too much. Of course, you're correct. We don't have a bunch of intelligent and insanely talented authors here. But I really don't think that caps should be outright banned, if anything make an amendment saying something like "anything using caps will be put under increased scrutiny."