I am less likely to read all-caps. That is good, because I don’t want to read the username. It’s usually my username, which is uninformative. I don’t want my eye drawn to this box. Other times, I just clicked on a particular user and I probably don’t need to be reminded who it is. Not being drawn to the box in that situation is a small cost. If I opened a bunch of user pages in tabs, it would be bad, but I don’t do that often. I have no idea if the designers were thinking anything like this.
That’s truly ingenious, but (to me) unconvincing: I think my eye is drawn to all-caps things that I’m not already looking at, but tends to skip over sustained passages in all caps in material I’m already reading. So using all-caps for something short, in a corner of the window, doesn’t seem likely to help ignore it. Perhaps I’m very atypical?
I am less likely to read all-caps. That is good, because I don’t want to read the username. It’s usually my username, which is uninformative. I don’t want my eye drawn to this box. Other times, I just clicked on a particular user and I probably don’t need to be reminded who it is. Not being drawn to the box in that situation is a small cost. If I opened a bunch of user pages in tabs, it would be bad, but I don’t do that often. I have no idea if the designers were thinking anything like this.
That’s truly ingenious, but (to me) unconvincing: I think my eye is drawn to all-caps things that I’m not already looking at, but tends to skip over sustained passages in all caps in material I’m already reading. So using all-caps for something short, in a corner of the window, doesn’t seem likely to help ignore it. Perhaps I’m very atypical?