I just checked my neck relief using a capo. It was slightly easier, but really it’s not very hard without one.
Tuning down and pretending to have a short scale with one seems like a lot more fun though, might try that later.
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The relation is in the whole sentence, not in those 3 words 
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It has a completely different sound.
I usually don’t play with a pick tho
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Due to the styles I like over time I just started using one more and more. I still play fingerstyle to not get too rusty but mostly I am picking these days.
I kind of gave up on slap, not so much because it is hard (it is), but it doesn’t work into the styles I want to play so much. Love some slap artists though, especially Kiyoshi.
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I really like slap too!
I’m practicing from time to time but it’s a bit out of my reach atm 
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Much like what you saw with capos and picks, I’ve seen a weird stigma about slap online sometimes too. Like, often when someone demos basses or pedals in a video and doesn’t slap, people thank them for not slapping. It’s weird.
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hahaha
There are a lot of people out there!
I also saw a few internet-personas referring to taping as ‘the ultimate technique’
As I said, to each their own.
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Playing with a pick or slapping, those are techniques that lend themselves to specific songs or genres, but playing bass with a capo? That’s just plain weird.
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Not if you’re playing chords
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Why do you need a capo to play chords?
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You don’t always, but it can make playing some chords easier.
In short, it makes key changes with chord work easier.
There’s only one song I play with chords on bass, and it pretty much sticks to two/three string power chords so I don’t really have a use for this, but some people do.
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I actually plan to use a capo with my Grabber : the idea is to do a proper setup for Drop-C# (C# G# C# F#) with bigger strings than what I use on Greenie.
… but I don’t always play in Drop-C# …
with a capo on the first fret, I would be able to go back to Drop-D and standard tuning in one second, and get a medium-scale for this. I calculated that it would bring the scale length to 32.55" with the capo.
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Old threat re-ignited. What about if you tune to Eb to accommodate the singer, but then want to do the odd song in standard E tuning. A capo on the first fret means you don’t need to re-tune. Is this a decent reason to use a capo or am I missing something?
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Nope, that’s a fine reason to use a capo. Make sure to ignore the fret markers though
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Sounds like a legitimate reason to me. As a bonus, you get to play a little bit higher on the neck, which might be easier if you have smaller hands.
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Hey guys, isn’t that a proper thread resurrection ?
Tal Wilkenfeld with a capo
(that said, I really don’t like her bass sound here. way too thin for me.)
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Well, it’s a J. 
Ok ok, only joking. You can make a J-Bass Ampeg-glug like a pro. Like here:
Sounds cool downtuned like that.
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Now I’m hungry. Thanks a lot. 
I use capo from time to time, not to transpose per se but to utilize the open string in the fills. It comes in handy when it’s a perfect tool in the right key. Sometimes it’s when you switch singer make and female and it just happens to be the one I can use the capo without changing the playing pattern.
yeah.
yeah.
actually still sounds like a J but in a good way
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