Username appearing variously with titlecase and lowercase

October 6, 2006 10:30 AM

Why does my username appearing in the top left corner not match the name that is posted when I comment? My login username is lowercase while the one that appears in comments is titlecase. Live preview displays my name in lowercase as well. I think I used a capital S when I first signed up (which was stupid since I prefer the lowercase s).
posted by Stynxno to bugs at 10:30 AM (22 comments total)

It's a bug. Some places show how you entered it when you last logged in.
posted by cillit bang at 10:36 AM on October 6, 2006

Yeah. You used a capital S when you first signed up so it shows that below your posts and on your userpage. At the top right, next to "Posting as:", and for the live preview it shows your name as you typed it to log in.

I've grown to dislike any capitals on odiv, but I signed up with ODiV so I'm stuck with it.
posted by ODiV at 10:47 AM on October 6, 2006

This, believe it or not, was part of the reason I abandoned danOstuporStar.
posted by If I Had An Anus at 11:05 AM on October 6, 2006

Previously
posted by smackfu at 11:09 AM on October 6, 2006

ahhh, the refreshingly comfortable consistency of no caps!

*stretches, luxuriates*
posted by sonofsamiam at 11:09 AM on October 6, 2006

You think caps are bad, try living with ill-considered underscores.
posted by brain_drain at 11:11 AM on October 6, 2006

mAYBE IT'S A KEYBOARD PROBLEM. i'VE BEEN SEEING SOME WEIRDNESS SINCE tUESDAY, MYSELF.
posted by Plutor at 11:14 AM on October 6, 2006 [2 favorites]

*high-fives sonofsamiam, regards rising price of capital letters with equanimity*
posted by languagehat at 11:42 AM on October 6, 2006

*cogitates*
posted by cortex at 12:17 PM on October 6, 2006

nocapsnospaces,that'sthewaytogo,really.
posted by soundofsuburbia at 12:34 PM on October 6, 2006

::: revels in his majusculity :::
posted by Johnny Assay at 12:54 PM on October 6, 2006

amen on the underscores! what was I thinking? Or, perhaps, why was I not thinking!?!?
posted by blue_beetle at 1:30 PM on October 6, 2006

Ach underscores. I was tricked into using an underscore by my own self, which had grown used to games and stuff that required me to place the underscore or else go with the weird and feminine "Mistera", which sounds like some kind of x-men chick.
posted by Mister_A at 1:42 PM on October 6, 2006

*posits theory that nocapsnospaces is part of the cool 14K thing, then realizes Stynxno himself is a 14Ker, beats head against drawing board*
posted by onlyconnect at 1:43 PM on October 6, 2006

TitleCapsNoSpaces AreCool

GrowABrainMorans!
posted by SteveTheRed at 2:17 PM on October 6, 2006

regards rising price of capital letters with equanimity*

I can't feed my children these days. And exclamation points! It's like they're made of solid gold.
posted by COBRA! at 2:26 PM on October 6, 2006

Acronyms, people. It's all about the acronyms.
posted by yhbc at 3:09 PM on October 6, 2006

"you have been crolled?"
posted by cortex at 3:21 PM on October 6, 2006

Letters of any case, numbers, and underscores are so Web 0.8.
posted by ?! at 4:22 PM on October 6, 2006

big fan of the lowercase. Also, four letter names. yhbc is the only one here i can relate to. (sorry ODiV, your caps make you like a pariah to me.)

hell, i just finally started capitalizing my I's when i hit 35.

(go ahead, check. i'll wait.)
posted by quin at 5:32 PM on October 6, 2006

Grunts are cheap.
posted by ook at 10:29 PM on October 7, 2006

Don't talk to me about ill-considered capitalization, spaces or punctuation. What *was* I thinking?
posted by Meep! Eek! at 8:47 PM on October 9, 2006