Why does the forum change what you write?

[Tim.C]

As the subject says.

I'm all in favour of spell checkers, but it keeps messing with the case.

ie when you type say PARTY it changes it to party

I then tried Party....which worked. Then someone quoted me, and it changed to party in the quote.

It's even more annoying when you do : D for and it changes to :d

It does this when there's not much int the thread - ie one word, or just .


What's going on, and can you stop it !!!!!!

 

[CharlesY]

No you can't stop it.

It is done like that because it makes someone feel important, because he knows more than you what you want to write - he thinks ... and as ever, he is WRONG.

It is very ANNOYING when "they" set daft or smart-arse rules.

In the line above, I typed the word 'annoying' all in caps.

Let's see what comes out.

CharlesY

 

[The Mad Hat Man]

nothing wrong with "Daft Rules" - as in OK .

 

[Soloby Rob]

No you can't stop it.

It is done like that because it makes someone feel important, because he knows more than you what you want to write - he thinks ... and as ever, he is WRONG.

It is very ANNOYING when "they" set daft or smart-arse rules.

In the line above, I typed the word 'annoying' all in caps.

Let's see what comes out.

CharlesY

Looks like ANNOYING to me

 

[Tim.C]

Just to clarify - I meant can YOU change it. (whoever YOU is)

I know I can't change it.

But forums like these have hundreds of settings that the admins can change - max size of avatar, length of sig etc etc.
I thought there might be a "Auto adjust case" setting or something.


Oh and it only seems to effect short posts.

eg next 2 posts are



and

ANNOYING

 

[Tim.C]

:d:d:d

 

[Tim.C]

Annoying

 

[nathan5346]

:d

 

[Tim.C]

Ooh that second one makes sense - I don't mind it doing that. But last time I tried it even the first letter was small !!!!