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I've read that people are using that as a sign that they aren't writing with AI, however I imagine it's easy enough to ask the AI to not capitalize and to use typos.
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> I imagine it's easy enough to ask the AI to not capitalize

It is! Relevant example from this week: https://sshhole.com/

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fair point, i do that only because i'm very used to it. i may introduce an option to auto-capitalize, and maybe different fonts to improve readability (and accessibility), especially for people with dyslexia
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If there was a toggle at the top to do so, I would hit it and have a much easier time reading your post :)
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that was the plan, yes! it's live now, along with a few fonts with improved readability to choose from, and a contrast option
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That makes quite the difference. Thank you.
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He does it for attention and your comment just gives it to him.
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some people just write in lowercase man, got nothing to do with attention
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Not everyone was privileged enough to go to school to learn how to write properly.
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it comes from IRC / BBS times, so the trend is 30+ years old.
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have you really not been online long enough to be able to parse communication without unnecessary markup
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If it makes it harder to parse, it's clearly not unnecessary.
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where does the necessity for ease of parsing come from

no ones going to argue that the page should be rewritten in chinese spanish or hindi so that the information would be easier for those readers to parse

to assume that the reader needs punctuation or even proper splling in order to rcv the message is nthing more than an extra nicety for only an english reading crowd

I am deliberately avoiding punctuation, there, because adding it does not add any information that is not already present in the text in order to demonstrate the point: The punctuation is not necessary. The information was transmitted and recieved. We know it is recieved because it was 'harder' to parse, not 'impossible' to parse.

Is it nice to have? Maybe. Perhaps for some.

Necessary? Certainly not.

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Non-existent punctuation makes it tougher for non-native speakers.

Your spellings certainly make it a lot harder.

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We're interpreting the "for what" part of "necessary" differently.

I'll draw inspiration from you and assume you don't need it spelled out.

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The missing punctuation at random times was infuriating. Never fun when you have to re-read a sentence because the word without punctuation is itself also a word.
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