Poll: CAPITAL WRITING

[JimbobDa3rd]

I?m sitting a course on design of products for the commercial marketplace and we were told that having the writing in capital letters makes a advert more likely to be noticed, I disagree with this because when I see bold witting it makes the advert appear to desperate. So I want to know if this tactic actually works, sadly if your reading this then it does and I am wrong. For obvious reasons I have to include a no answer but your lying if you click it because you came to this forum.

 

[Lukeje]

No, the misspelling of 'Writing' made me come to this thread.
Edit: It's been fixed now.

 

[Eagle Est1986]

No, the misspelling of 'Writing' made me come to this thread.

Haha, sadly me too.
I suppose I better answer the question now, personally I prefer things all in lower case, so no.

 

[ihatefullmetalalchemist]

It depends on the size
also i think bold does as well

 

[sirdanrhodes]

This thread is full of empty.

 

[JimbobDa3rd]

yea soz about that must have acidentally hit the t twice, didnt think to proof read the title

 

[Brokkr]

I'm not lying when I say no. I usually just get pissed off when I see all caps, especially in forums.

 

[Starnerf]

Only if used in such a way that they aren't bombarding me, inuring me to their effect. I generally consider capital letters in advertising to be unnecessary, since the ad itself should draw my attention, not the text. Unless it's a text ad, but then I would have to already be reading it to notice it at all.

 

[Scorched_Cascade]

I as well was annoyed by the caps and came to see what was so important you had to shout; while as an advertising tactic this is good in terms of getting me to look its bad in the fact I would have immediately black listed any product you were selling as irreverant, desperate and annoying.

 

[gamshobny]

unfortunately, yes, it does. This often makes me read completely useless threads simply because of the capital letters in the title.

And comments of 12 year olds.

 

[Shadow Law]

Usually if someone has the cap lock on i reply back with... STOP F-ING YELLING!

 

[P1p3s]

i think caps in the middle of a sentance (not marketing, just regular old chit chat/forum postings/a book etc) probably does draw my eye in and make me find something emphasises or ...something.

I don't like the idea that text could be used to manipulate me to generate sales, they are even using the letters against us - why alphabetic friends WHY - WHY HAVE YOU TURNED ON US

ooh, see what i did there...never mind

 

[Gormers1]

Sadly, yes...

 

[Starnerf]

Whenever I see a post in all caps I imagine it being read by a robot with no vocal inflection.

 

[goodman528]

No. I find large amounts of capital letters unreadable, so I usually ignore it.

 

[TwistedEllipses]

I usually read it aloud in my head as shouting, but I don't think it makes stuff stand out significantly...

 

[Sennz0r]

Whenever I see a post in all caps I imagine it being read by a robot with no vocal inflection.

Every time I read an all-caps post I imagine this little eight year old kid shouting until his head goes purple.

Because that's what all-caps posters are.

 

[Hippobatman]

Whenever I see a post in all caps I imagine it being read by a robot with no vocal inflection.

Every time I read an all-caps post I imagine this little eight year old kid shouting until his head goes purple.

Because that's what all-caps posters are.

My thoughts exactly. Caps only annoys, nay, infuriates me to the degree that I have to destroy some measly little kid wandering about in the street by my house.

 

[Abedeus]

I ignore caps locked posts.

They are a waste of time.

Bold posts, however, are pure awesomeness.

 

[Anarchemitis]

It's just one way to evoke loudness in a statement, but there are many ways, each evoking a different kind of loudness.
loudness!
loudness!
loudness!
LOUDNESS!
[HEADING=1]loudness![/HEADING]