While all caps is annoying, I am equally annoyed by posts that don't capitilize the first word of a sentence, don't use 2 spaces after a period, and that use non standard abbrevations, ie. u r instead of typing you are. I am not saying that I am not guilty of this, or that the post is worthless, but I just find it equally as annoying as all caps.
I agree very much with thelawnguy on the animated gifs. Since the graphic must be stored on another server, my pc must access that server as well to continue loading the page past the animation. I have run into the situation where a page would load as far as the animated gif, and then stop. My screen command box would say that it was attempting to contact host ( where the animated gif) was stored, and sometimes that host is slow or down, and I cannot load the page past that point. The same can happen for a regular pic. VERY ANNOYING. I know of at least one person that does not visit or participate in this site because his pc is old, and cannot handle the large graphics or animations.
Another point, they are hard on the eyes of some of the seeing impared.
