So the workaround for such cases where the admin is on vacation and the user needs to post now is:
for the user to put one lower case letter in the title, apparently. So perhaps me saying OpenStreetMap instead of just OSM would have allowed me to use all caps for the other part.
Indeed, success!
In the process the user is 100% not sure of the rules.
Well, still, it would be better to always show a message when changing things people write, no?
I mean e.g., if their title isn’t long enough, they get a message, instead of the program just making it long enough for them. That’s good. The same should be the case for the case of the letters.
Sure, you don’t have to “spill all the secrets”. Just tell the user “Your text has been changed” at least.
I mean how would you feel if something changed your resume behind your back?
One might say “always keep your eyes on the result of pressing Save”. Well 99% of the time it acts like we expect, so we grow to expect that is how it acts, thus a message is warranted.