can't edit lowercase to uppercase

[knotical]

More of a nuisance than a serious problem, but the edit function ignores my attempts to change lowercase letters to upper case. e.g. in a recent post, I tried to change Padi to PADI, but it just leaves it as Padi. Further info, I had drafted the post in my word processor with PADI as all caps. Somewhere after I pasted it into the thread, it changed to Padi.

 

[Cave Diver]

More of a nuisance than a serious problem, but the edit function ignores my attempts to change lowercase letters to upper case. e.g. in a recent post, I tried to change Padi to PADI, but it just leaves it as Padi. Further info, I had drafted the post in my word processor with PADI as all caps. Somewhere after I pasted it into the thread, it changed to Padi.

That's because PADI was the only text you had in that post outside of the quote. Vbulletin is set up so that you can't make your entire post out of upper case letters to avoid the "yelling" perception. Change your post to read "From PADI" instead of just PADI: and it should work.

 

[mrfixitchapman]

You can also use invisible letters, too. Change a lower case letter in the message to color=white.

DC

 

[vladimir]

Does anybody else think it's hilarious that vBulletin is protecting us from virtual yelling (vYelling?)?

 

[mrfixitchapman]

Does anybody else think it's hilarious that vBulletin is protecting us from virtual yelling (vYelling?)?

It's for our own good, you know.

DC

 

[The Chairman]

We used to get these first time posters who wrote ALL IN CAPS. Those posts inevitably led to a pissing match where users would berate the poor noob for offending them by yelling. This is a great alternative.

 

[knotical]

That's because PADI was the only text you had in that post outside of the quote. Vbulletin is set up so that you can't make your entire post out of upper case letters to avoid the "yelling" perception. Change your post to read "From PADI" instead of just PADI: and it should work.

Cool ! That worked. It also allowed me to change the first letter inside the quote back to upper case. Learn something new every day.
thanks

 

[drbill]

Well, now I realize why the titles to my Dive Dry columns always look so dumb. Why VBulletin coverts a capital that is the first letter of a word is beyond me though.

 

[knotical]

I'm guessing because it was the next letter after PADI, so it appeared to be continuing the "shouting".