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Is full caps account names not normal ? (lemmy.today)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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LIKE_THIS ? And do i come of as some kinda culty weirdo ? I thought that looked formal and trademarky ? Am i a zoomer aldready out of touch and becoming cringe ? Should i change my accs to small letters but i'll lose my block history whuch is almost 1000 /c/ any way to back that up ?

Edit : also to get ahead on that matter yes i may or may not have had FULL_CAPS alts and may have felt like a troll but no chained accs like that has ever been created by me . (By chained i meant same name on different instance i pulled the term out of my ass just now enjoy 😂)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I thought it looked formal and trademarky ?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Never has all caps looked formal, has it?

[–] damium 4 points 9 months ago

Business systems from the 80s used to automatically convert everything name related to caps. It made it easier to do string matching which was generally case sensitive in the DB. It also made data entry easier as you just turn capslock on and type.

No so much formal as lazy semi-formal.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Don't all the things like lawyers, teachers, companies etc have theirs in caps ?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Short answer: no.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Looong one ? Also i remember you from somewhere else do you have an alt or DID or somethin ?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm all over the Fediverse under this name and also @[email protected] so could be either tbh. I did a lot of tech support in the early days of the big migration here :D

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Ha so i am not crazy haha

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Well not for that reason anyway

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Eh whatev

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

My CPA writes all his emails in all caps. Kind of annoying really.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I don’t see why anyone would use all caps