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Editing old messages on Support, again

That's not so old (this was not in the Limbo and still visible on the 1st page), and there was a remark about that (notably to you, but also to the initial submitter and to possible other readers). That additional remark would have moved the thread up anyway, but I don't know why it is disruptive to continue a talk with a small remark which also reminds that why we should not capitalize everything.

Verdy p (talk)12:25, 18 December 2022

You wouldn't have to make this remark if you hadn't changed the title, and you shouldn't have changed the title. Just stop doing such things.

Amir E. Aharoni (talk)11:38, 20 December 2022

You've already done that yourself in the past. Usually this is not needed, but keeping them gives a bad example to others.

In most wikimedia projects this is clearly prohibited and changed promptly (sometimes more radically, this causes the entire message to be removed (this is part of their policy). Many social networks or forums also don't allow that as well and their moderators are managing this usnig eother ways.

Most people don't like "ALLCAPS" style because they are in fact slower to read, they are tolerated on isolated words when there's no other way to emphasize that word or if these are abbreviations and there's a need to distinguish them from regular words. But others now use other ways to emphasize their message in social networks: they use many colorful emojis, often needless as they mean almost nothing clear, and makes navigating page more difficult to follow. Emojis are not tolerated everywhere (and in subject lines of emails they are old tricks used mostly by spammers, and more rarely by advertizers that use them very sparingly as they cause accessibility problems, recipients are more likely to delete these messages without reading anything). You already know that, but should be aware that if you accept that, others will follow and it will become "the" standard.

Verdy p (talk)19:34, 20 December 2022

Where have I done it in the past?

Amir E. Aharoni (talk)13:08, 21 December 2022