[SnooziSuzi]

Aubergine,  simply posting in legible English is considered to be good manners and posting in capitals is shouting so don't ignore what others see as acceptable behaviours.  It's not Internet policing, it's common courtesy to make sure that what you are saying isn't misinterpreted as something else... simply reading someone's typed post can be read in so many ways so that having some type of protocol is generally accepted as a way of understanding whether the person is adding emphasis to a piece of text or ranting to the whole world in general :twisted:

Grannie, I remember being told that writing in red pen was the ultimate in poor etiquette as it meant you were being insincere or something!

BTW, welcome to the forums Missi,  I'm sure you'll be happy here    If you can post some pics of your veg I'm confident that the folks here can ID them for you  

[DD.]

Thanks for that Suzi - yes there's a word of difference between policing & protocols.

[sclarke624]

Also, it would be appreciated if you don't post in capital letters as it's considered poor net etiquette, (I'm sure this was not intended), and it's very difficult to read!

I don't know how anyone could interpret that as Internet policing, simply a polite nudge in the accepted direction from one of the Moderators of the forum. :roll:

Welcome missi.

[John]

We know we get quite a few inexperienced internet users on here - unlike the techy sites - so just pointing out the way things are done is hopefully useful to others as well

If you want to be really sad, you can look up how people read and specifically how they read web pages. Apparently all capitals, or lower case takes nearly twice as long to read according to studies.

Also, underlining text is confusing as it implies a link where none exists. There's a great book for web designers by Jakob Nielsen called Designing Web Usabilty that is full of gems like that.

[woodburner]

I have firefox and am long sighted. I am always using Ctrl + keys   It's really good for the internet novice as it stops many adverts and pop-ups (unwanted windows opening). It's good at finding websites when you only put in part of the address and it remembers web addresses that you have already visited, and shows them in a drop down list when you start typing the address. I highly recommend it.