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Q&A 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 ...

4 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Moshi‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Moshi‭

#3: Post edited by user avatar Moshi‭ · 2020-08-23T21:54:45Z (over 3 years ago)
Trying out something, will revert if it fails
  • 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?**
  • So this has been bugging me for a while now. Recently, the tags <a class="badge is-tag">Chinese</a>, <a class="badge is-tag">Cantonese</a>, and <a class="badge is-tag">Mandarin</a> 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?**
#2: Post edited by user avatar Moshi‭ · 2020-08-23T18:22:31Z (over 3 years ago)
Got rid of feature-request tag, after thinking about it, I'm *opposing* a "feature"
#1: Initial revision by user avatar Moshi‭ · 2020-08-23T18:21:38Z (over 3 years ago)
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?**