faq > writing captions
How can you add the symbol of music notes to show that your quote comes from a song?
Please copy and paste from this: 🎵 Alternatively, you can favourite a note emoji on your phone, or type 'note' and check for 🎵 if you have suggested text active. Also, on a PC you can hold Alt and type 14 on the Num Pad for ♫
If you are not happy with your own caption, can you change it completely?
Absolutely - this is encouraged.
Someone has duplicated my caption! What can I do about it?
Leave a comment on the duplicate caption politely pointing this out, including the time of your original caption. The author will be emailed your comment and others will see it on the site.
When someone leaves a comment on how to improve a caption ,should the captioneer alter it or is this wrong? Would it be classed as getting help from someone else?
I'm sure most captioneers would agree that if a good suggestion is given, then it's always positive to follow the advice and change the caption. I don't think anyone would consider this cheating.
What happens if two captioneers enter the same captions at the same time?
Good question. If it's totally instantaneous then all we can do is leaving the voting to random chance, right? But generally there will be a tiny gap between them. I'm currently working on a duplicate detector which will alert the author if they're submitting a duplicate (or similar) caption.
There used to be a duplicate detector, but then it went away? Oh well.
Where do I write my Caption? (I am a newby) :)
Sign up, log in, then click on a photo. A box will appear next to the image where you can type your caption. When you've finished writing, click "Add Caption"
How often can you re edit your own caption?
You can edit your caption any number of times
On the fist after my captions there is no square round it. All the other captions have. Why?
Voting on your own captions is disabled, which is shown by the thumbs icon being flat rather than button shape.
Why do my new captions keep dissapearing & then re appearing later.For example my caption Adigas is on the individual photo caption list but not on the caption list
The "Captions" list is ordered by both time and score, so you may find that a caption slips off the front page of this list as it gets older, but then reappears because it has been upvoted.
Can swear words be used?
Yes, if it's appropriate to the joke. But please use them sparingly, or consider ***ing out a portion of the word, as bad language may jeopardise caption.me's listing in search engines.
Can captions be political?
There's plenty to joke about in politics, but if you're writing a political caption, please be sure that you're making a genuine joke, and not a political statement.
We don't want caption.me to be used as a political battleground.
Is the caption author of ,( the man on subway - pulling life support) - Putting LOL, in Discuss - 'on their own' caption? I know self-promoting is taboo.
The author was responding to another comment on his caption.
In future, please could you use the forum when discussing specific captions/people please. The FAQ is for more general questions.
can you enter your own caption in the discuss sectiion and can you comment on your own caption in the discuss sectiion? I have noticed some in discuss, say - by caption author.
Yes you can comment on your own caption (but preferably in reply to comments from other people). If we spot people trying to increase visibility of their captions by commenting on them then the team will take action.
I just wrote a caption for the dogs at the fire pit picture and it went twice - a second apart and took two of my quota points. How do I erase the second one and not lose my quota pt.?
You can click on the caption to see the caption page, where you will find a button to delete it.
I will manually increase your quota.
Is it a nod, if someone uses your words you used in 'discuss,' in their caption. I used the word 'purrplexed' on 'my comment in discuss,' and now someone has used it as their captiion.
Feels like a nod would be the right thing to do here, assuming the caption was copied from your comment.
May I delete a caption that I am not now happy with and replace it, and can I only submit one caption per picture?
You can edit the caption as much as you like. You could also delete it, but you won’t regain quota.
You can submit as many captions for the same picture as you like, within your quota.
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