This was/is a big discussion in another thread.

It is annoying to those of us who see "all caps" as YELLING in net-speak, but the poster is doing the right thing.

if it were some fast breaking thing or just one or two words it wouldn't be anywhere near as irritating and rude as full lines of caps.

and when someone just digs in when asked nicely, and then does it again right away, you can see clearly they are just being an asshole - not refering to this OP, rather the accuracy-avoiding, attention-seeking, fear-mongering Don Quixotes from the East County Magazine.

I answered the poster's question; the headline is copied (check the link) word for word, and it HAPPENS to be in all caps. If the mods cared, there would be a "proper case" feature automatically fixing things. There isn't. In the grand scheme of things, this is NOTHING, but some folk enjoy creating drama (and since the trouble makers are being ignored, the source of the UGLY is pretty obvious - and SHE isn't it).

Please take your complaints about the other thread back to it; I am NOT interested (although it was funny as anything when "someone else did it" and the Attack Brigade didn't go off on them - the politics of personality are strong sometimes).

Like I said: whatever.

do you know whether or not alerts were sent on other people posting all-cap headlines?

It does amaze me that she could be bought so cheaply.

Politicians sell out?
How could that happen?
Don't they take an oath of office?

that have been brought up by a recently installed Republican legislature that seems to have a special dislike of women.

I don't think you can blame this on Republicans.

"The arrest comes four months after Arkansas Business reported that the Democratic state treasurer had been under criminal investigation for more than a year when, on Dec. 14, the Republican-led Legislative Joint Auditing Committee voted to refer an audit of her office to state and federal authorities."

http://www.arkansasbusiness.com/article/92576/state-treasurer-martha-shoffner-arrested-for-extortion-by-fbi

in the November election. In that "more than a year" period when she was being investigated, the Legislature was majority Democratic.

This isn't a politically motivated hatchet job. Gov. Beebe, Att'y Gen. McDaniel, U.S. Sen. Pryor, gubernatorial candidates Bill Halter and Mike Ross, all Democrats, as well as the chairman of the Arkansas Democratic Party, are all calling on Shoffner to resign.

http://arkansasnews.com/sections/news/arkansas/calls-shoffner%E2%80%99s-resignation-mount.html

Now a state prosecution might be more easily influenced, or it might not.

In any case, see Seeking Serenity's post below.

and deserved to be forced to resign (although I don't see how the Feds decided on charging her with "extortion&quot , I have a bad feeling about the political ramifications of this, considering how the state has increasingly been turning Republican.

having much effect in 2014. I think it'll be really hard to tar someone like Bill Halter with her misdeeds. She'll take a plea deal, and it'll all be done. Yep, I'm optimistic.