Comment by imsohotness
21 days ago
I've seen this before, I know Sam Altman does it (or used to do it). That was a couple years ago. Hope it doesn't become a trend.
21 days ago
I've seen this before, I know Sam Altman does it (or used to do it). That was a couple years ago. Hope it doesn't become a trend.
It's already a trend. It's been for at least a decade. I'm surprised people here never noticed it...
Unfortunately it has become quite common on HN already.
It comes from people growing up on smartphone chats where the kids apparently don’t care to press Shift.
I've already written an extension that filters these comments intelligently. (E.g., quotes are ignored but if the rest of the body is all lowercase it is collapsed.)
have you shared it anywhere?
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What’s weird though is that modern OSes often auto-capitalize the first letter of a sentence, so it actually takes more effort to deliberately type in all-lowercase.
Only mobile does that in my experience - you can tell what platform people send discord messages on based on this usually
simple toggle to disable it permanently
my reasoning is that i don’t want identifiable markers for what device im writing from. so all auto-* (capitalization, correct, etc.) features are disabled so that i have raw input
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