SHOUTING !!!

[Great_Western_Rwy_fa]

Can We just get back to Model Railroading…

Don’t sweat the small stuff, In this case the LARGE stuff!!

[Great_Western_Rwy_fa]

I just wish people would type slower…I am not a speed reader.

Now that’s funny!!

[Geared_Steam]

For the visually impaired, the text size can be increase in IE by going to:

View > Text Size> Largest

In addtion to this , there are other methods, such as holding the “Ctrl” button down and using your mouse wheel to shrink / expand the whole webpage.

FYI

[twhite]

I have to admit that I just read Dan Merkel’s reply which was in a much larger font, and found it quite easy to read. Now I don’t know how this new Forum comes up on your computers, but on mine, the printing comes up really rather small (about an 8-point Font) and I’ve been having a little trouble with reading some of the posts. Now I’m 68, but my eyesight is still relatively good (despite bifocals, LOL!), so it could be one of two things–the new Forum, or the fact that I recently went through a siege of having to re-format my computer and it’s still acting like a Prima Donna[:-^].

At any rate, I didn’t get the impression that Dan was ‘shouting’, I got the impression that it was just much easier for me to read. At least under the present circumstances.

Tom [:)]

[Geared_Steam]

Some of you are getting it mixed up.

Using Large type is not considered shouting.

USING ALL CAPS IS CONSIDERED SHOUTING.

Personally IDK. [swg]

[gjvjr50]

I think that the idea of shouting came from texting on cell phones and were not on them here so lets not sweat the small stuff

[hewitt]

lets put this to bed.

my original question was why?

to the ones I had in mind I think selector summed it up best - B.B&E

to Don Z - of course it doesnt matter. however if asking a simple question is condidered " griping " I dont think I am the one with a problem

anyway I think that`s enough.

[lvanhen]

BECAUSE THEY CAN!!

Besides, whoever decided that typing in all caps=shouting needs to be shot. It’s one of the dumbest things I’ve ever heard.

DITTO!!!

[loathar]

We don’t see magazine articles or newspaper stories in all caps, because it is harder to read.

More importantly, caps take up more space and space costs money in the print industry.

[lvanhen]

Now that yelloy type IS ANNOYING!!

Is that the reason all signs are capitalized??? CAN YOU NOT READ THIS?? Capital letters are harder to read than non-caps??? where would someone come up with that insanity, a letter is a letter, is your eye or brain incapable of deciphering the letter a or A . I would say if someone cannot read a letter, they are in trouble. Also this urban (computer) myth of caps as "shouting’’ is carrying on a very old myth started years ago, give it up. Is lower case lettering classed as whispering?? The print word is incapable of volume. Try asking this irritating question to a lettering or grammar specialist, strange how this terrible crime never existed until the marvels of computer minds invented it. Now remember, make sure you slow down when you approach a s t o p sign.

Here here!

What’s really annoying is when someone uses a font or color that’s next to impossable to read…

OK, now I get it!! I couldn’t read it untill I changed the color - now it’s a good thing we dont have a white type!![:D]

[blownout_cylinder]

Unless someone wants to write . Then things get kind of oddod…[alien]

[tstage]

lets put this to bed.

Agreed. And now that everyone is bright eyed and bushy-tailed after a stirring conversation, let’s talk some trains…

Woohoo!

Tom