ALL CAPS ROOM

Five Golden Rings

1:06 AM

ABCDEFGHIGJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ ALL CAPS

jball

3:47 AM

SO IS NOT USING CAPS LIKE WHISPERING IN HERE?

Tyler Chacha

4:11 AM

HELLO

@jball NOT USING CAPS IS PROHIBITID

jball

4:38 AM

AGH - MY USERNAME IS A VIOLATION?

Reno

5:59 AM

IM AWESOME !

CHYEAH !!

also fight the power

badp

9:30 AM

FLAG

I KNEW IT, THAT USELESS CHACHA GUY HAS OWNER

NOW WE'RE STUCK WITH THE LOWERCASE MESSAGE

Five Golden Rings

1:31 PM

I HATE THAT CHACHA GUY

Pekka

1:57 PM

I VOTE FOR THIS TO BECOME THE OFFICIAL SLOGAN OF THIS ROOM

yesterday, by Five Golden Rings

IF CAPSLOCK IS CRUISE CONTROL THEN HOLDING SHIFT IS THE GAS PEDAL FOR COOL

I APOLOGIZE PROFUSELY FOR THE LOWERCASE LETTERS

Five Golden Rings

THIS CHAT APPLICATION'S FUNCTIONALITY IS AT ODDS WITH THIS CHANNEL'S REASON FOR EXISTING

WE SHOULD DEMAND THAT BALPHA IMPLEMENT ALL-CAPS MODE

balpha

2:22 PM

HERE'S A BOOKMARKLET FOR YOU:

javascript:void(document.body.style.textTransform="uppercase")

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Five Golden Rings

OH BABY

IT'S A BIT OF A COP OUT THOUGH BECAUSE NOW OTHER PEOPLE CAN TYPE IN LOWERCASE AND IT WILL STILL LOOK LIKE UPPERCASE TO ME

BUT I APPRECIATE IT

STILL IT WOULD BE BETTER TO HAVE A REAL ALL CAPS MODE TO CHAT

YOU NEED TO THINK OF YOUR USERBASE, BALPHA

WE DEMAND ALL CAPS MODE

balpha

HUGE TECHNICAL PROBLEM, THOUGH: YOU CAN'T MENTION ANYBODY. THERE'S NO UPPERCASE "@"

Five Golden Rings

2:40 PM

2 IS UPPERCASE @, AND @ IS UPPERCASE 2

balpha

MAYBE ON YOUR KEYBOARD

Five Golden Rings

US ENGLISH KEYBOARDS ARE THE CORRECT LAYOUT EVEN IN CANADA

HAVE YOU SEEN CANADIAN ENGLISH KEYBOARDS THEY MAKE NO SENSE

OK I HAVE TO GO BUY A COFFEE TABLE NOW

Rebecca Chernoff

3:00 PM

WHAT IS GOING ON IN HERE?

THREE FLAGS?!

Pekka

@REBECCA WRITING MESSAGES CONTAINING LOWER CASE LETTERS IS A FLAG-WORTHY INFRACTION IN THIS ROOM

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Yi Jiang

@RebeccaChernoff FOR NOT CONFORMING TO THE STANDARDS OF THIS ROOM!!!

Pekka

@YI FLAG!!!!!!

Yi Jiang

@Pekka WE ALL NEED TO CHANGE OUR DISPLAY NAMES TO UPPERCASE IF WE WANT TO DO REPLIES LIKE THIS

Pekka

3:22 PM

YES THAT IS CORRECT

RD01

I DON"T UNDERSTAND WHY I HAVEN"T RECEIVED A SPECIALIST TAG BADGE YET ON SO. I HAVE READ ALL OF THE APPLICABLE POSTS ON META, AND I STILL THINK I HAVE EARNED ONE. I DON"T WANT TO POLLUTE META WITH YET ANOTHER WHINY QUESTION ABOUT WHERE IS MY BADGE, SO THIS SEEMS LIKE AN APPROPRIATE PLACE TO VENT, BEFORE I SHRUG AND ORDER A PIZZA.

TIME FOR PIZZA

Pekka

@RD01 YOU MEAN THE GENERALIST BADGE?

Yi Jiang

@RD01 IT'S ALWAYS TIME FOR PIZZA

Pekka

YOU'RE NOT THERE YET

RD01

A BRONZE JAVA BADGE

badp

3:35 PM

NOW IS NOT TIME FOR PIZZA

RD01

BUT PIZZA WILL MAKE ME FORGET THE PAIN

Pekka

AH

YOU HAVE 85 UPVOTES IN THE JAVA TAG

badp

PIZZA MUST WAIT FOUR HOURS

Pekka

YOU NEED 100 I THINK

badp

FOR IT IS MERELY 1636 NOW IN THE ONLY TIMEZONE THAT COUNTS.

RD01

3:36 PM

ON MY PROFILE I HAVE 113.

Yi Jiang

IT'S 100, YES

Pekka

@RD01 ONLY NON-WIKI UPVOTES COUNT, MAYBE IT'S THAT

RD01

AND I HAVE COUNTED THE INDIVIDUAL UPVOTES IN QUESTIONS SO I AM CONFUSED. AND HUNGRY.

Yi Jiang

THE PROFILE NUMBER INCLUDES CW I THINK

Pekka

ON ODATA, YOU HAVE 85

data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/s/89/…

RD01

3:36 PM

I DON"T HAVE ANY CW UPVOTES.

Pekka

@RD01 CHECK THE DATA QUERY

RD01

I CHECKED ODATA AS WELL, AND EVER SINCE I CHANGED MY PROFILE NAME, ODATA SEEMS TO HAVE STOPPED INCREMENTING.

badp

@RD01 ODATA IS NOT UPDATED LIVE

Yi Jiang

@badp BUT THE JAN UPDATE SHOULD BE LIVE ALREADY, NO?

Pekka

@RD01 BUT YOU'RE RIGHT, YOU HAVE 113

RD01

3:37 PM

ITS BEEN A COUPLE OF DAYS. I"M HUNGRY, BUT NOT THAT TERRIBLY IMPATIENT.

Pekka

THEY ARE NON-CW VOTES

BUT THE BADGE CAN TAKE A FEW DAYS

GIVE IT ANOTHER WEEK OR SO

badp

@YIJ PLEASE CORRECT YOUR LOWERCASE COMBO ×3

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Yi Jiang

@Pekka IT CAME PRETTY FAST FOR ME

RD01

AND HAVE A PIZZA

Yi Jiang

@badp GO CHANGE YOUR DISPLAY NAME THEN

Pekka

3:38 PM

@RD01 YES SAME HERE, BUT BADGES CAN TAKE TIME SOMETIMES

badp

I CANNOT FOR I CHANGED IT TOO RECENTLY

Yi Jiang

@RD01 THANKS!!!

RD01

ARRGH. I HAVE TO WAIT TWO HOURS FOR DELIVERY. THEY SHOULD OPEN THE STORE FOR MY ORDER

Yi Jiang

@BADP OR JUST USE @BALPHA'S SCRIPT

badp

@RD01 AS I SAID, IT IS NOT TIME FOR PIZZA

RD01

3:39 PM

DON"T THEY KNOW I"M MISSING A BRONZE TAG BADGE? AND NOW I"M MISSING PIZZA!

Yi Jiang

@RD01 WHAT''S WITH THE DOUBLE APOSTROPHE?

Pekka

@RD01 TWO HOURS? WOW

CHICAGO MUST BE A BAD PLACE TO ORDER PIZZA

RD01

I"TS MY UPPERCASE APOSTROPHE.

badp

NEXT TIME BUY MICROWAVED PIZZA IF PIZZA IS TO BE HAD OUTSIDE THE TIME FOR PIZZA

Pekka

@RD01 HAH GOOD POINT!

Yi Jiang

3:40 PM

@RD01 THAT''S PRETTY COOL!

RD01

I LIKE TO SHOUT IN PUNCTUATION AS WELL

badp

@RD01 I REJECT YOUR UPPERCASE APOSTROPHE AND REPLACE IT WITH MY OWN: `

Yi Jiang

OMG EXCLAMATION MARKS!!1!!ELEVEN!!!1!!!!!!1!!!!!!1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

RD01

IT"S ONLY 9:$) HERE IN CHICAGO. NOT QUITE PIZZA TIME.

badp

ALSO WHY ARE YOU USING PERIODS

@RD01 IT IS 1641 IN THE ONLY TIMEZONE THAT MATTERS

I AM SORRY

RD01

3:42 PM

I AM SORRY BADP I WILL SHOUT WITHOUT PERIODS

badp

@RD01 YOU`RE MOST WELCOME

RD01

MY HUNGER IS AFFECTING MY SPEECH

badp

I SUGGEST HAVING MORE CROMULENT LUNCHES

Yi Jiang

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Q: Notification when having low accept rate

I've read suggestions about preventing users from asking questions when they have a low accept rate. And I do agree that it will not help. However, what about an notification (the orange top div) that shows a message like "We suggest that you start accepting answers, read more here". The link go...

CAN WE CLOSE THIS NOW? KTHKBAI

RD01

MAYBE THE POSTER THINKS WE SHOULD SEND SOMEONE TO THE HOUSE OF PEOPLE WHO DON"T ACCEPT ANSWERS AND MAKE THEM PAY

REPUTATION IS SERIOUS BUSINESS>

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badp

3:52 PM

AGREE BUT SOME ERETICS ONLY CARE ABOUT THEIR PROBLEM WHEN ASKING

HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE

RD01

AHA I FINALLY FOUND IT

Tyler Chacha

4:43 PM

HEELO

badp

5:00 PM

I WOULD LIKE TO PROVIDE YOU WITH SCIENCE: HTTP://TINYURL.COM/STAR-SPAM

RD01

@BADP YOUR SCIENTIFIC CHAT ANALYSIS INTRIGUES ME CAN I SUBSCRIBE TO YOUR NEWSLETTER

badp

@RD01 I AM ON THE TWITTERS

AND THE GOOGLE READERS

RD01

EXCELLENT

RD01

5:19 PM

I HAVE PIZZA FINALLY THE WORLD MAKES SENSE AGAIN

jball

7:38 PM

I"M NOT SURE THAT FLAGGING USERS FOR TYPING LOWERCASE SHOULD BE THE STANDARD - HOW CAN YOU FLAG SOMEONE FOR WHISPERING WHEN THEY ARE DROWNED OUT BY ALL THE SHOUTING ANYWAY?!?!?

ALSO THE SYSTEM REPLIES VIOLATE THE LOWERCASE RULE ANYHOW AND THE CONTRAST OF THE LOWERCASE REALLY MAKES THE UPPERCASE SEEM LOUDER

IF I TYPE A BUNCH OF MESSAGES SLOWLY OVER TIME I CAN CREATE ONE DOMINATING BLOCK OF CAPS TEXT

I WILL HAVE TO THINK OF A NAME - MONOLITH SEEMS NICE BUT DOES NOT CAPTURE THE IMPLIED LOUDNESS OF THE BLOCK

MY BRAIN WILL NOT PROVIDE ME WITH IDEAS THAT DO NOT SUCK

WHAT ARE THE RULES ON PUNCTUATION IN HERE?!?!

I"M PRETTY SURE THAT ?!?! IS THE SHOUTING VERSION OF A QUESTION MARK

IS !!!!!11!!!! THE SHOUTING VERSION OF AN EXCLAMATION POINT ?!?!?!

AND HOW DO YOU SHOUT A COMMA OR IS THE IDEA THAT YOU KEEP SCREAMING THE WHOLE TIME WITHOUT TAKING A BREATH SO THAT NO ONE ELSE CAN SAY ANYTHING UNTIL YOU

DEEP BREATH

HAVE TO STOP TO BREATHE REALLY LOUDLY AND THEN START SHOUTING AGAIN BUT THIS TIME FASTER TO MAKE UP FOR ALL THE TIME THAT YOU WASTED ON BREATHING IN?!?!?!

ALSO IS THERE A RULE THAT I NEED TO TAKE A BREAK OR CAN I JUST SCREAM CONTINUOUSLY TO MYSELF?!?!?

GOOGLE CHROME"S SPELLCHECK IS SCREAMING-FRIENDLY

IS CHECKING SPELLING ALLOWED OR ARE TYPOS ENCURAGED?!?!?

I"M RUNNING OUT OF THINGS TO SCREAM TO MYSELF ABOUT

balpha

YES.

jball

YES TYPOS OR YES I NEED TO TAKE A BREAK OR YES I SHOULD NOT USE COMMAS BECAUSE I"M YELLING TOO FAST TO TAKE A BREATH?!?!?

OH AND FOR POLITENESS HI BALPHA

balpha

YES.

jball

I ONLY GOT 15 MESSAGES IN ON MY MASSIVE SCREAMING BLOCK

I MUST TYPE TOO SLOW

IS THERE A SHOUTING VERSION OF ELLIPSES?

!?!?!?

Tyler Chacha

7:54 PM

HELLO

WHAT IS HAPPENING IN HERE?

WHY IS THIS SUCH A POPULAR ROOM?

WHAT KIND OF MONSTER HAVE I CREATED?????????

jball

THE BEST KIND OF MONSTER\

A SCREEEMING MONSTER

SILENT MONSTERS ARE MORE BORING

BUT PERHAPS MORE CREEPY

badp

SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

ASPLODES

jball

WE WILL MOURN YOU AND THE LOSS OF YOUR HEAD BADP

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Tyler Chacha

ISN'T MOURNING GENERALLY NOT DONE IS ALL CAPS??

jball

TYLER YOU CAN ONLY TRULY MOURN GREATNESS WITH SCREAMS OF SORROW

MOURN THE LOSS OF GREATNESS

MOURNING GREATNESS SEEMS LIKE A REALLY BAD IDEA

badp

7:59 PM

@JBALL IT IS OKAY 200 COPIES OF ME HAVE RESPAWNED 24 METERS AWAY FROM YOU, WAITING TO ASPLODE WITH YOU

jball

SWEEEET

MOURNING DONE

WATCHING COSMOS AND THEN SHOUTING IN CHAT IS LEADING TO A LOT OF EMOTIONAL DISSONANCE IN MY HEAD

DOES ANYONE HAVE A ALL-CAPS SUBTITLED VERSION OF COSMOS?!?!

I MUST LEAVE THIS ROOM NOW AS I CAN NO LONGER HEAR MYSELF THINK

Tyler Chacha

8:56 PM

HELLO

AGAIN

jball

HELLO

I FEEL CONTRADICTORY BEING POLITE IN ALL CAPS

badp

@jball FUCK YOU, BEING POLITE IN ALL CAPS IS A GREAT WAY TO BE SARCASTIC.

jball

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ATTENTION: BADP

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badp

ATTENTION: @JBALL

THANK YOU FOR YOUR BUSINESS PROPSAL, I AM MOST INTERESTED IN HELPING YOU HELP US HELP YOU ALL, SO LET ME FORWARD YOU TO MY BUSINESS ACCOUNTANT, @PEKKA

BEST REGARDS,

Tyler Chacha

11:30 PM

HELLO

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