my brand-new podfic policy

[isiscolo]

Two things, both vaguely related to amplificathon:

1. Nobody's ever recorded any of my fic as podfic; I don't know if that's because I've recorded a bunch of them and therefore people assume I only want them to be read by me, or if it's because nobody's interested in reading my stupid stories. Anyway, on the off chance that somebody is interested in reading

Comments

[neery]

It's annoying enough when people don't capitalize properly in normal posts, but it drives me utterly crazy when they do that in fic. I really don't get what they're trying to do.

[isiscolo]

I am tremendously grateful that in all the fandoms I read, even the people who eschew normal capitalization in their posts use it for fic.

[neery]

In bandslash, sometimes people do it the other way around. Thankfully, I've never seen that in a fic that was actually good, so I just take it as a warning sign same as typos in the header.

[iibnf]

I'm thinking of making it a policy to defriend/not friend non-capital users.

[isiscolo]

That is my current policy. The problem lies with 1) reading such people's comments in my and other journals (some of them recognize that I have an Issue here, and are polite enough to use normal capitalization when commenting here, but not all do; and of course I have no control over what happens in others' journals), and especially with 2) communities frequented or run (cf amplificathon) by such people. I can't participate in a community if I can't even stand to read the rules!

I also am worried that my instinctive and extreme reaction will be viewed negatively by people who are friends with these posters. (Who are, I am sure, perfectly nice people, and many of them do a lot for fandom - but I simply can't read their posts or comments.)

[iibnf]

I have someone on my flist I want to unfriend - she never uses capitals and she posts constant emo whining.

Except you know that rule that you can't unfriend someone within 3 months of their last suicide post? She posts one every two months, so I just seem stuck!

[isiscolo]

I think that the no-capitals rule cancels out the suicide post rule. I say go for it.

[jamethiel_bane]

Um. I capslock a lot? Sorry.

[isiscolo]

Oh, honey, I didn't mean you. I don't mind an occasional capslock word or phrase. But all caps makes my eyes bleed - and all lower-case, which is more common, makes me all squinty and pissy and annoyed.

[jamethiel_bane]

Yes! It's one of the reasons that I prefer my bandom (yeah, sorry. I'm reading some of the stories, but I just can't get into the canon. Because Pete Wentz cannot spell OR capitalize, and it drives me nuts) filtered through canon.

(Do not worry. I will not disappear into the mists of bandom. I read in lots of fandoms that I'm not in.)

Also, my housemates say reading one of my posts is exactly the way that I talk, except with less danger of getting hit with a flying arm as I gesture. \o?

[isiscolo]

I agree.

[franzeska]

Ha ha ha. Yes, "I am an individual! Look at my hipster shirt!" does not count as "artistic purposes".

[delurker]

Anybody out there interested in writing me a Greasemonkey script that automagically converts LJ (and clone) text written without standard capitalization to proper English text?
Ooh, that would be so awesome!

[isiscolo]

Now, how do we get a coding slave to do our bidding?