Hi everyone,

[benjamincox@writing.exchange]

@print @alice I do this every time and it annoys me when people don’t. It’s not hard and makes a world of difference.

[print@theforkiverse.com]

@crabby
Wikipedia calls the example as Pascal case or upper camel case.

Your example with initial lower case is a example of lower camel case or dromedary case.

I guess we are both correct and I have learnt something.

Either way is better than all lowercase.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_case

[scandigonian@pnw.zone]

@alice

@print

[chuckmcmanis@chaos.social]

@print what does it do with snake case #are_these_read_as_separate_words ?

[libewa@chaos.social]

@print @d1
Official Mastodon app (and website, iirc) too… seems to be the norm.

[heylaiverd@mastodon.nl]

@print The people who keep pointing fingers at me for not adding ALT text to all my photos are the same people who never use capitals (camel case) in their hashtags. ‍️

[secbox@chaos.social]

@alice @print

#letitsnow

[mroach@ublog.mroach.com]

@alice @print The domain expertsexchange.com is hall of fame material for this problem

[print@theforkiverse.com]

@HeyLaiverd

Yeah, I haven't had thise people for a while, they don't seem to have a problem with my posts anymore, because they are blocked.

People are free to use Mastodon etc how they want. People forget, have other stuff going on or trying to do stuff on phone keyboards. And that is ok. Been there myself.

This instance has a large amount of new people, so trying to educate and make it a normal. Which encourages others to use camel case and alt text as the default.

[trimtab@mastodon.social]

@print
OP was slightly ambiguous on A).. So do screen readers understand upper camel case and read out the words nicely? If not then are you indirectly saying it changes nothing for them?

[riggbeck@mastodon.social]

@print

B for me. Camel case pleases my #ConanTheGrammarian instincts as opposed to the #horriblesplurgeoflowercase abominations.

[foriamcj@infosec.exchange]

@print

Agreed

Depending on the instance you're on this likely *Does* require purposeful intent though..

I.E. people are being tricked into "doing the wrong thing" by the auto complete popups (for hashtags) that are supplied from their instance's server(s)

"The system" defaults to showing you "auto complete" hashtags and the auto complete versions are almost always in lower case. So, if someone selects the system supplied suggestion.. they get "the bad result"

[jaxxai@floss.social]

@print but camel case would actually be #likeThisExample

No caps on first letter.

[shiawase@mastodon.social]

@ChuckMcManis @print
I tried it with iOS built in TTS. It can read it out ok.
Interestingly it can also read out the all lower case hashtag properly. Although with a slight change on stress in "example".
I guess you'd need to see what commonly used screen readers read out.

[shiawase@mastodon.social]

@ChuckMcManis @print
Also probably pure chance. It didn't really cope with @alice 's examples.

[knoppix95@mastodon.social]

@print I think you won't find a single post without camel case hashtags in my profile

[project1enigma@chaos.social]

@print @d1 it depends on what the server offers as continuation which is apparently the first version the server has seen.

[ciourte@piaille.fr]

And if you're wondering "Why not #snake_case_hashtags though? They work just as well."
Yeah, they even work better since you can capitalize letters and single-letter words don't make it weird, but you will never convince the majority to switch, so just give up and join them.

@print

[_timemit_@mastodon.scot]

@print ah, sorry, I had been originally misinformed that #'s worked best all in lower case.. I will try rewire my behaviour!

[alexadeswift@lgbtqia.space]

@alice

I also hate seeing people write text where every other word is a hashtag, as it makes text illegible and goodness knows how that comes across in text readers!

Far better to put them right at the foot of a post!

@print