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Is it possible to capitalise the l in the "let us continue this discussion in chat" message that appears in the comments when a specific chat room is created to avoid lengthy discussion in the comments?

Added later: I asked a similar question on the MathOverflow meta regarding the machine-generated duplicate comment.

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    $\begingroup$ I think that is something set by SE in the general case; I'm not sure it can be customized on a site-by-site basis. $\endgroup$
    – Sean Allred
    Oct 5, 2013 at 4:11
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    $\begingroup$ @vermiculus: Then it should be corrected globally. $\endgroup$
    – Asaf Karagila Mod
    Oct 5, 2013 at 7:20
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    $\begingroup$ How about making it a proper sentence by also including a full stop? $\endgroup$
    – Lord_Farin
    Oct 5, 2013 at 8:30
  • $\begingroup$ I thought no one but me worried about this sort of thing. $\endgroup$
    – Git Gud
    Oct 5, 2013 at 16:28
  • $\begingroup$ I had thought that the improper grammar and punctuation is deliberate, so that the reader knows that the message was sent by a machine and not a human. $\endgroup$
    – Willie Wong
    Oct 7, 2013 at 8:22
  • $\begingroup$ @WillieWong: Does it matter whether the message was sent by a human or a machine? Does it matter that whoever reads the message knows it was sent by a machine? $\endgroup$
    – Michael Albanese
    Oct 7, 2013 at 19:02
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    $\begingroup$ @WillieWong With the varied userbase here, would improper grammar not make it more likely to have been written by a human, rather than less? $\endgroup$
    – Tobias Kildetoft
    Oct 7, 2013 at 19:52
  • $\begingroup$ Idk. U tell me, @Tobias! $\endgroup$
    – The Chaz 2.0
    Oct 7, 2013 at 21:25
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    $\begingroup$ related (and status-declined): meta.stackexchange.com/questions/44528/… $\endgroup$
    – Caleb Stanford
    Oct 7, 2013 at 21:47
  • $\begingroup$ @Willie: You give too much credit to the average English level on the internets. :( $\endgroup$
    – Asaf Karagila Mod
    Oct 7, 2013 at 21:52
  • $\begingroup$ @MichaelAlbanese and others, I had thought that with such an outrageous comment (cf. Asaf's comment immediately prior), the readers would know that I was being facetious. $\endgroup$
    – Willie Wong
    Oct 8, 2013 at 7:27
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    $\begingroup$ @Willie: Any text on the internet without a smiley at the end can be, and will be, taken seriously. $\endgroup$
    – Asaf Karagila Mod
    Oct 8, 2013 at 17:57

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