Use italics instead, it's much more becoming and friendly. [...] Add a few capitalized words and you come across abrasive and overly strident. Just a friendly observation.
Before I took a 4 month break from the forum and not even reading anything, last summer till just recently,
I was GUILTY of using far too many CAPS in the Skinwalker thread. I was over-the-top freaking-out, because I was sooooo shocked people could just buy-in and believe that hokum. Some people were not friendly with me at all on that thread, and it had NOTHING to do with my CAPS. It had everything to do with my very skeptical approach to the "insanity play" going on before my eyes. I got the Kindle version of that author's book, and I researched it BIG TIME. Probably more than anyone else on that thread from a reader's standpoint. That was my first experience in life of being attacked with so much hostility for just sharing my honest understanding and beliefs. Looking back now, I should have rarely used caps, and I should not have posted so much, and so emotionally, in that thread.
Ahhh, let's chalk that up to the inexperience [and naivety and foolishness] of a newbie. Please.
I've come back. I'm far more understanding of what all I'm up against in such situations.
I do suffer from online eye-strain. It helps me when I post to use CAPS to emphasize something, but I'm
not shouting. I apologize to anyone thinking my CAPS are shouting. Not so.
When I start using bold text, underlines, and CAPS in one post, then I am getting frustrated thinking someone is just ignoring or not acknowledging or not paying attention to something that needs serious attention. I'm not shouting, though.
I'll have to put a disclaimer in there when I do it again, because it will happen again. The
eye-strain is too much for me to deal
with the same size text all the time. I need to be able to use the font formatting to relieve my eye-strain and express myself fully. It is also a "psychological need" to do as well.
I'm just more passionate and expressive like an "Itali-ano" in text form.