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posted by softpillowSTAFFMOD on August 2, 2025 at 9:23 AM
I swear at some point within the last few years the section on taglines in the rules have changed (disappeared). There either used to be a statement or an example (or both) that indicated taglines should be treated like a full sentence (grammatically). So if a poster like this for example: https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/dZfRfFV360k53QbnkMafvppL2dR.jpg
Should have the tagline "A name you can't trust." and not "A name you can't trust"? Or am I wrong was that never a thing?
and this: https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/o7x3ABd5PD9fqXPWIexGWayHXGm.jpg
Should be "Terror is as cold as ice." and not "Terror is as cold as ice"
(I know for sure that section has also changed in a different way- it used to say "When an English tagline is all in caps and without punctuation on the poster, both "This is a tagline." (sentence) and "This Is a Tagline" (title) are accepted." but thats something different)
Reply by Kampfkeks
on August 2, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Strange, I remember this too and therefore only entered taglines in this way (i.e. with the dot at the end). But maybe this is some Mandela-effect-like-thing, I'm no longer sure.🤔
Reply by Banana
on August 2, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Indeed, this part "use standard sentence capitalization. A tagline is not a title and therefore title case should not be used for taglines." is new/different.
I'm sure you can find the archived version if you want to, but is basically used to say (not in those words) that either sentence capitalization "A name you can't trust." or title case "A Name You Can't Trust" were fine, but to not mix the two "A Name You Can't Trust."
Reply by softpillow
on August 2, 2025 at 3:14 PM
No that's not it. I acknowledge both of those new changes but that's not what I'm talking about. So I guess I might be mistaken? Although kampfkeks seems to remember what I'm talking about (though they're not certain either)..
Besides the question about what the rules might have been in past...what about in present? I assume "A name you can't trust." based on the rules is incorrect although I have been getting many taglines locked to this way by mods for years now....
Reply by Banana
on August 2, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Maybe. I'm not sure it was ever written in specifically. It was always known that a sentence should end with dot though.
Reply by softpillow
on August 2, 2025 at 10:18 PM
ok. so at least it definitely is the way its supposed to be, even if it may never have been officially written there.