I tend to press and hold SHIFT instead

[taotrooper]

I think I'm lost with the purpose of the infamous CAPSLOCK comms, besides typing like OotP!Harry Potter would. I go to one and I see silly canon rants, I go to another and I see crackful (and most of the times crappy or tasteless) fanstuff, and I go to some other and they're mocking the idiots with badly-disguised sarcasm. Does it depend on the fandom or the members decide what to be capslock-y about?

I've been thinking about the manganime merchandise I'd love to have one day, probably when I have a job and stuff. Because most of this is expensive:

WISHLIST

* = maybe

Plushies and toys
- Mokona Modoki plushies manga version, from the 15th anniversary time
- Spinel Sun plushie (THEY EXIST)
- Plushie pack Chopper + Carue + kung-fu dudong
- Huge Alphonse plushie*

Artbooks and fandom books
- Both of Hiromu Arakawa artbooks for FMA
- Third CCS artbook*
- CLAMP South Side*
- The XXXHOLiC manga guide
- OP Color Walk 3 Lion (Color Walk 2*)

Novels that based anime/manga
- Kino no Tabi series
- Slayers series
(- If they're ever translated to English, the Haruhi Suzumiya series*)

Comments

[pleonasm]

I can't figure out capslock either. Seems pointless to me. Must be for those deaf people who need to see when someone is shouting...

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

But I don't mean typing in CAPSLOCK itself. There's this trend in LJ right now, in which people create a comm for a fandom in which you can only post in caps. So in the end you get an average fandom community, except, you know, pretty much louder than usual.

Try looking for "capslock" as an interest in LJ search, and you'll stumble to some.

[pleonasm]

Right, I've seen capslock_house. Still don't get the point of it. I don't like being shouted at over the intrawebs. ^^ Obviously you don't either.

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

I suspect those (the House capslockers) were the ones who started the trend, and interesting enough they're famous for their wanks. Their retina-burning, epilepsia-inducing layout doesn't help either.

...ironically, the CLAMP capslock comm seems to be made in order to wank.

It could be worse. The day someone makes a StIcKyCaPs comm, then we'll know the webapocalypse has come.

[pleonasm]

That layout gives me seizures, man. And a stickycaps comm... well, I might just have to leave the internet. wow. That would suck.

[tommyrotter.livejournal.com]

Aw, I think they're fun every once in a while. As in, I adore the One Piece CAPSLOCK community, but then again that sort of fits in with One Piece's sense of humor. That being silly and loud. XD

But I can understand how too much would get annoying, and luckily the comm I like is filled with crack and humor, and not wank. I have heard that wank can get pretty bad in some of those comms...

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

I find the OP one a bit overwhelming. It might have to do with the fact it's not my kind of humor. The comm's, not the series'. I like silly, but nothing over there made any sense to me or amused me when I checked it.

That's true, though. The CLAMP one, for instance, only has boring sarcasm, and the House one is filled with trolls. At least the OP one looks civilized.

[tommyrotter.livejournal.com]

Oh, well yes, I can completely see where it wouldn't be someone's cup of tea. And of course I wasn't trying to be all "OMG U R NO FAN11!1!" or anything, just, uh, throwing in my two cents? hahaha XD

Yikes, really? I've heard vague horror stories, but nothing specific...

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

That's okay, I didn't read you like that ^^

I've pretty much only heard bad stories about the House capslockers. Actually, I have the feeling my doubts about CAPSLOCK comms come from them and the fact they're almost always around on that fandom's wanks (http://wiki.fandomwank.com/index.php/House).