Hobo

I just experienced something new and strange on CoinTalk. When I posted a reply just now it did not post exactly like I wrote it. What I wrote was:

"SGS MS-70 1859 IHC"

Every letter should have been capitalized. What appeared when I posted was:

"Sgs ms-70 ihc"

Even when I edited my post to correct the mistake the changes did not take effect.

What gives? Has anyone else experienced this?

This is the first time I have had this problem.

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AdamL

Yes, I have. It started happening a while back. I guess it is to prevent people from shouting? But I don't really like it.

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snaz

I noticed it, then I went back and turned off caps lock. and just held shift.. and If I remember correctly it worked. I think it just prevents caps lock from ... caps locking

test:


THIS IS ALL CAPS LOCKED, THIS SHE BE CAPITALIZED.

THIS IS SHIFTED< SHOULD ALL BE CAPITALIZED>

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Shawn

Canadian Small cents : 108/124 87% complete
Canadian Large cents: 44/56 78% complete
Canadian Small cents MS: 64/124 51.7% complete

snaz

There goes my theory. I tried

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Canadian Small cents : 108/124 87% complete
Canadian Large cents: 44/56 78% complete
Canadian Small cents MS: 64/124 51.7% complete

Hobo

Wow! I just noticed it and I don't like it. Now when I write things like 'SGS MS-70 1859 IHC' and it comes out 'Sgs ms-70 1859 ihc' I'll look like an idiot.

EDIT

So why did it work then? STRANGE indeed.

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ANA LM-3799; OHNS LM-59; SUSCC R-4005. All coins stored in bank safe deposit box.

Hobo

It appears to be hit and miss.

BTW (that should be btw in all caps) I was using the Shift key, not Caps Lock, when I experienced my problem.

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ANA LM-3799; OHNS LM-59; SUSCC R-4005. All coins stored in bank safe deposit box.

Catbert

Something similar happened to me when I copied a word document into a post. I had copied in size 10 for most of the post, but then copied some smaller size 8 words into the same post which then changed the text size of much of the document to size 8. Made the whole post look badly composed. Oh well.

spock1k

dont worry catbert we will get to the future in 2020

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budgood

I made a post this morning where I was shouting & then I went back to it a bit more calm to do an edit & when I deleted a part of the post it changed my CAPS to lower case. ODD........

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GDJMSP

It's not hit and miss and it has been this way for as long as I can remember.

It has to do with WHAT you type and WHERE that text is located in the post.

For example, if I wanted to answer a request for a grade estimate, and all I wanted to type was - MS65, what would show up would be - Ms65. And editing will not change it.

But, if I typed just a bit more text like - I think the grade is MS65 - it shows up in caps every single time.

Yeah, I know it's annoying. And I have never found a way around it. I always figured it was some default setting in the forum software. Peter may be able to do something about it, but I never could.

I just decided years ago to accept it and forget about it. All it takes to fix the problem is a simple re-wording of your post. You just can't start off a post with nothing but caps or capitalized abreviations.

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Hobo

Thanks, Doug. I don't know why I never ran into that before. Maybe I have always used complete sentences and this time I did not.

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No state shall emit bills of credit, make any thing but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts, coin money . . . - US Constitution, Article 1, Section 10

ANA LM-3799; OHNS LM-59; SUSCC R-4005. All coins stored in bank safe deposit box.