Unfortunately it has become quite common on HN already.

It comes from people growing up on smartphone chats where the kids apparently don’t care to press Shift.

GaryBluto 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I've already written an extension that filters these comments intelligently. (E.g., quotes are ignored but if the rest of the body is all lowercase it is collapsed.)

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verdverm 2 hours ago | parent [-]

have you shared it anywhere?

	▲	GaryBluto 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I plan to at some point, it's part of a bigger extension I created for myself to filter out minor annoyances and I'd have to strip out/modify things other people probably wouldn't want (such as filtering of "new age" TLDs like ".pizza" and whatnot).

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Uehreka 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

What’s weird though is that modern OSes often auto-capitalize the first letter of a sentence, so it actually takes more effort to deliberately type in all-lowercase.

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nemomarx 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Only mobile does that in my experience - you can tell what platform people send discord messages on based on this usually

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rileymichael 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

simple toggle to disable it permanently

my reasoning is that i don’t want identifiable markers for what device im writing from. so all auto-* (capitalization, correct, etc.) features are disabled so that i have raw input

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hluska 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Being part of the minority that disables those things (and then admitting to it in public) provides a lot more analytical signal than you’re aware of. That’s a remarkably poor reason to disrespect your readers.

	▲	rileymichael 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		i don't care about the 'analytical signal'. the purpose is people can't tell if im writing a (discord, slack, etc.) message from my phone or laptop or desktop, and it works for that