"SOLD!" Replaced by "Sold!"

[clayj]

I just marked a thread of mine in the Marketplace as "SOLD!", and it shows up as "Sold!". If I add anything else to the post, I can have it say "SOLD!", all in caps, but as soon as I remove everything else, it switches back to "Sold!"

What's going on here?

 

[mad jew]

You mean this thread?

 

[clayj]

You mean this thread?

Yeah... what do you see? I see "Sold!", not "SOLD!" like I originally typed. (And I see it on two machines, so it's not a caching issue of any sort.)

 

[mad jew]

I see Sold!. It must be a vBulletin thing because I just typed SOLD! here (as a stand-alone response) and it came back as Sold!.

 

[clayj]

I see Sold!. It must be a vBulletin thing because I just typed SOLD! here (as a stand-alone response) and it came back as Sold!.

Exactly. That's my question: Why does a standalone "SOLD!" get converted into "Sold!"?

 

[Lau]

I think there was a OMG!!!!!!NEW POWERBOOKS NXT TUES!!!!!11111111324 filter put in a while back that translated caps to lower case. Annoying if you want to do something like you wanted, but worth the payoff in that ALLCAPS TYPERRRRZZZ OMG!!! are automatically toned down.

 

[iGary]

Omfg!!!!!

 

[edesignuk]

It's because of a feature switched on in vB to prevent SHOUTING in titles It's not 100%, but it's good enough.

I would imagine it tones down SOLD! to Sold! when sold is the only text in the title because it sees nothing but caps, if SOLD was the only caps text among other low case text it might allow it.

 

[mad jew]

Well, it's just one of those "clean up" features of vBulletin, like the elimination of double spacing. All-capitals doesn't look very good.

 

[ITASOR]

IF I MAKE ONLY OnE LETTER LOWERCASE, WILL IT LET ME DO ALL CAPS?

edit: guess so.

That's a cool feature though, I hate all caps.

 

[MacNut]

Im seeing the caps so Im not sure if Im nuts or not.

 

[FocusAndEarnIt]

Omg Wtf Bbq This Is Awesome Yay


EDIT: WOaH!!

lol

 

[WildCowboy]

It's to force you to use Apple conventions...

iSOLD!!

 

[Phat_Pat]

Loud Noises

edit: ugghhhh neato

take 2

LOuD NOISES

 

[CoMpX]

Scream Out Loud!!

EDIT: SCReAM OuT LOuD!!

EDIT#2: Haha cool.

But what I would like to know is why did it let you say sold in all capes a second ago...because of the quotes? "SCREAM!"

EDIT#3: It seems quotes disable this vBulletin feature. Sweet.

 

[edesignuk]

Omgwtfbbq Enough I'm Closing This!