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Should we allow capitalized tags?
So this has been bugging me for a while now. Recently, the tags Chinese, Cantonese, and Mandarin were changed to lowercase. When asking why on the discord, I was told that it was because "tags are lowercase".
yanchan:
@ArtOfCode why'd you change them to lowercase though
ArtOfCode:
because tags are lowercase
just haven't got around to enforcing that yet
Note that this isn't a technical issue, the site was perfectly fine while the capital tags were being used (they're both just text, after all). This is just an arbitrary restriction to ... I don't know, make tags consistent? (at the expense of English capitalization rules)
So, I'd like to ask the broader community: Should we allow tags to be capitalized?
I think tags should be case-preserving and also case-independent. By this I mean: I do not want us to have two tags tha …
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Yes! Tags presentation should not obey to any technical constraint. Store tags any way you like, present them in Engl …
4y ago
Capitalization is part of spelling. Tags should be allowed to be spelled correctly. Forcing all lower case not only lo …
4y ago
It bugs me when some of the tags are capitialized and some are not, I would much rather they all be one way or the other …
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