Uppercasing first letters of some words in descriptions

cofla · 2007-01-19, 07:18 PM

I know that using uppercase in the first letter of every word in the description field is a no-no. But I wonder what should I do if I want to write a word denoting a country or a person's name in the middle of the sentence, that is a situation that normally calls for uppercase.

Would reviewers drop the freesite for that ?

Useless · 2007-01-19, 07:49 PM

Using proper English should not be a problem.

Preacher · 2007-01-19, 09:01 PM

Funny how simple questions make you rethink things in an entirely new way.

HTML Code:

<style type="text/css">
span {text-transform: capitalize;}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<span>this is my title</span>

No more worries about caps in the title anymore. You could do the same with the description, text-transform the entire description to lowercase and then use a :first-letter transform to capitalize just the first letter of the sentence.

And if someone submits a two sentence description you just ban them.

Can I patent this idea?

Useless · 2007-01-19, 09:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Preacher

Can I patent this idea?

Only if I can patent some PHP written by someone smarter than I.

$site_title = ucwords($site_title);
$site_descrip = strtolower($site_descrip);
$site_descrip = ucfirst($site_descrip);

MrYum · 2007-01-19, 09:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Useless Warrior

Using proper English should not be a problem.

Agreed

As to that other stuff...geez, you guys are geeks

cofla · 2007-01-20, 06:31 PM

Thanks for the comments guys I see there would be no problems with what I asked but after the discussion on how to enforce uppercase on just the first letter of the first word I better refrain from uppercasing names and stuff, better be safe than sorry

stuveltje · 2007-01-20, 06:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Useless Warrior

Using proper English should not be a problem.

Stu<--- knows she has to take some english lesson even she did highschool on high level....i blame the teachers its their fault...fauld oh damn....who cares...i am the dutch chinese lady specially at late evening|shocking|

Cleo · 2007-01-20, 06:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by stuveltje

i am the dutch chinese lady specially at late evening

Is that like a woman who gets paid for sex or is it a woman who is always late for dinner?

Toby · 2007-01-20, 07:09 PM

Thx guys, both of those could come in handy.

Let's take the coding for Title one step further and figure out how to keep it from capitalizing words like in, to, the... unless they're the frist word.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Useless Warrior

$site_title = ucwords($site_title);
$site_descrip = strtolower($site_descrip);
$site_descrip = ucfirst($site_descrip);

Quote:

Originally Posted by Preacher

HTML Code:

<style type="text/css">
span {text-transform: capitalize;}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<span>this is my title</span>

Toby · 2007-01-20, 07:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cleo

Quote:

Originally Posted by stuveltje

i am the dutch chinese lady specially at late evening

Is that like a woman who gets paid for sex or is it a woman who is always late for dinner?

Or is it more like a women you pay to have sex with then find yourself wanting more an hour later?

Useless · 2007-01-20, 08:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cofla

...I asked but after the discussion on how to enforce uppercase on just the first letter of the first word I better refrain from uppercasing names and stuff, better be safe than sorry

I'll say again, using proper English should not be a problem - unless of course the reviewer is partially illiterate. Is it possble to be partially illiterate? I don't know. Maybe I am, and that's why I don't know the answer.

Anyway, if someone rejects you or bans you for capitalizing a chick's name in your description, tell them that Useless called them an ignorant cunt and that they should go back to fucking up people's orders in the drive-thru. They will reply, "who the fuck is Useless?" - and then you'll be on your own.

My script is written so that no matter what the submitter writes in the description field, it will all be changed to lowercase and the first letter of the first word will be uppercased. When I review, I uppercase the proper names and countries manually. I take no chances.

Useless · 2007-01-20, 08:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Toby

Let's take the coding for Title one step further and figure out how to keep it from capitalizing words like in, to, the... unless they're the frist word.

My head began to hurt when I thought about this.

What happens if any of those words happen to be the first word in the title? This is a question for cd34 - not me.

SheepGuy · 2007-01-20, 09:48 PM

Lately I've been wondering how often the cotton in my aspirin bottle should be changed? Mr Yum is right

cofla · 2007-01-20, 10:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Useless Warrior

I'll say again, using proper English should not be a problem - unless of course the reviewer is partially illiterate. Is it possble to be partially illiterate? I don't know. Maybe I am, and that's why I don't know the answer.

Anyway, if someone rejects you or bans you for capitalizing a chick's name in your description, tell them that Useless called them an ignorant cunt and that they should go back to fucking up people's orders in the drive-thru. They will reply, "who the fuck is Useless?" - and then you'll be on your own.

I'm not the kind of guy that changes his mind very often, but that put me in the mood of capitalizing countries and proper names again, thanks UW

Btw, if they reply "who the fuck is Useless?" that would be a confirmation that they are totally illiterate

Cleo · 2007-01-20, 11:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SheepGuy

Lately I've been wondering how often the cotton in my aspirin bottle should be changed?

Isn't that just suppose to be the tasty treat after you eat all the aspirins?

Greenguy · 2007-01-21, 02:49 AM

Does anyone else think it's really silly to have php & scripts & whatnot type up proper English?

Maj. Stress · 2007-01-21, 03:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Greenie

Does anyone else think it's really silly to have php & scripts & whatnot type up proper English?

This thread seems to be wandering a bit off course. As far as link lists go, I don't see any value in using code to correct something that should have been submitted properly to start with.

If a submitter does not understand title case and sentence case, they either can't read, won't read or just don't understand. It's back to the drawing board for them.

Greenguy · 2007-01-21, 03:51 AM

Link Admin does come with 5 options:
Upper Case (ABCD EFGH)
Proper Case (Abcd Efgh)
First Only Upper (Abcd efgh)
Lower Case (abcd efgh)
As Entered In Database

I use Proper Case for most, which makes Murray happy because he can type faster if he doesn't have to look for the pesky "shift" key

Useless · 2007-01-21, 04:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Greenie

Does anyone else think it's really silly to have php & scripts & whatnot type up proper English?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Maj. Stress

As far as link lists go, I don't see any value in using code to correct something that should have been submitted properly to start with.

If I rejected every submission with a typo in the title or description, I wouldn't have much to list.

With the amount of description editing a reviewer does, there's little point to demanding absolute perfection. If i can use three lines of code to begin the editing process for me, you bet I will.

If anyone is wondering what I'm doing up at 4AM - I woke up to something howling at 2:30 and haven't been able to sleep since. I think it was my bi-polar neighbor. He does that.

Maj. Stress · 2007-01-21, 04:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Useless Warrior

If I rejected every submission with a typo in the title or description, I wouldn't have much to list.

With the amount of description editing a reviewer does, there's little point to demanding absolute perfection. If i can use three lines of code to begin the editing process for me, you bet I will.

My experience has been if they don't get it at least close on the first attempt, they seem to think it's cute to go back months later and add a few extra outbound links. I don't mind fixing minor things but I don't care to be repaid with shit like that. Maybe I just attract flies

KG Gary · 2007-01-21, 06:58 AM

I was under the impression that the first-letter-capitalised-only thing was a pretty strict rule, something to do with screwing up scripts or something, so I've deliberately not used a capital letter for names in the body of my descriptions just in case I got rejected.

It always looks wrong to me, so I guess I'll start doing it properly!
Yay!

RedCherry · 2007-01-21, 12:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SheepGuy

Lately I've been wondering how often the cotton in my aspirin bottle should be changed? Mr Yum is right

OMG that made me laugh so hard in the middle of that discussion.

I've always capitalized the first letters of names, never really thought about if it caused a problem or not. Glad to hear though that doesn't seem to be the case. With me, it is spelling I have to watch out, I'll misspell things and read right over it and not catch it until I run spellcheck on something.

dareutwo · 2007-01-21, 01:24 PM

I submit using proper English, and let the LL admins do what they want to.
I Hate When I Get A Submit Like This To Marks.
But if Stu, from Vleuten submitted, two Czech babes that would be just fine.

My mother was an English teacher. (hence the capitalization)

stuveltje · 2007-01-22, 10:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dareutwo

I submit using proper English, and let the LL admins do what they want to.
I Hate When I Get A Submit Like This To Marks.
But if Stu, from Vleuten submitted, two Czech babes that would be just fine.

My mother was an English teacher. (hence the capitalization)

heheheh

2007-01-19, 07:18 PM	#1
cofla Rock stars ... is there anything they don't know? Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 12	Uppercasing first letters of some words in descriptions I know that using uppercase in the first letter of every word in the description field is a no-no. But I wonder what should I do if I want to write a word denoting a country or a person's name in the middle of the sentence, that is a situation that normally calls for uppercase. Would reviewers drop the freesite for that ?

2007-01-19, 07:49 PM	#2
Useless Certified Nice Person Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Dirty Undies, NY Posts: 11,268	Using proper English should not be a problem. __________________ Click here to purchase a bridge I'm selling.

2007-01-19, 09:01 PM	#3
Preacher There's Xanax in my thurible! Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Wherever they screw on my head Posts: 2,441	Funny how simple questions make you rethink things in an entirely new way. HTML Code: <style type="text/css"> span {text-transform: capitalize;} </style> </head> <body> <span>this is my title</span> No more worries about caps in the title anymore. You could do the same with the description, text-transform the entire description to lowercase and then use a :first-letter transform to capitalize just the first letter of the sentence. And if someone submits a two sentence description you just ban them. Can I patent this idea? __________________ NSCash * This Depraved World

2007-01-20, 09:48 PM	#13
SheepGuy It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Canada Posts: 2,527	Lately I've been wondering how often the cotton in my aspirin bottle should be changed? Mr Yum is right __________________ If the Environment was a bank, they would have saved it by now.

2007-01-21, 02:49 AM	#16
Greenguy The Original Greenguy (Est'd 1996) & AVN HOF Member - I Crop Pics For Thumbs In My Sleep Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Blasdell, NY (shithole suburb south of Buffalo) Posts: 41,929	Does anyone else think it's really silly to have php & scripts & whatnot type up proper English? __________________ Promote POV Porn Cash By Building & Submitting Galleries to the Porn Luv Network

2007-01-20, 06:31 PM	#6
cofla Rock stars ... is there anything they don't know? Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 12	Thanks for the comments guys I see there would be no problems with what I asked but after the discussion on how to enforce uppercase on just the first letter of the first word I better refrain from uppercasing names and stuff, better be safe than sorry

2007-01-21, 03:51 AM	#18
Greenguy The Original Greenguy (Est'd 1996) & AVN HOF Member - I Crop Pics For Thumbs In My Sleep Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Blasdell, NY (shithole suburb south of Buffalo) Posts: 41,929	Link Admin does come with 5 options: Upper Case (ABCD EFGH) Proper Case (Abcd Efgh) First Only Upper (Abcd efgh) Lower Case (abcd efgh) As Entered In Database I use Proper Case for most, which makes Murray happy because he can type faster if he doesn't have to look for the pesky "shift" key __________________ Promote POV Porn Cash By Building & Submitting Galleries to the Porn Luv Network

2007-01-21, 06:58 AM	#21
KG Gary I can now put whatever I want in this space Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: South East UK Posts: 744	I was under the impression that the first-letter-capitalised-only thing was a pretty strict rule, something to do with screwing up scripts or something, so I've deliberately not used a capital letter for names in the body of my descriptions just in case I got rejected. It always looks wrong to me, so I guess I'll start doing it properly! Yay! __________________ Sponsors that used to convert with freesites Over 700 clean freesites

2007-01-21, 01:24 PM	#23
dareutwo You can't disprove anything with evidence that doesn't exist Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: NW Minnesota - pop 865 +/- 1 Posts: 2,038	I submit using proper English, and let the LL admins do what they want to. I Hate When I Get A Submit Like This To Marks. But if Stu, from Vleuten submitted, two Czech babes that would be just fine. My mother was an English teacher. (hence the capitalization) __________________ This is me Mark's-Links