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Where are pronouns specified? How much digging are volunteer mods required to do under penalty of censure? Will all Stack Exchange sites add a "pronouns" field
by fencepost 7y ago
Where are pronouns specified? How much digging are volunteer mods required to do under penalty of censure? Will all Stack Exchange sites add a "pronouns" field to user profiles that can be displayed along with user IDs? Are mods going to be required to go look at each user account's free-form description each time to check for pronoun information and possible changes (there have been references to 'gender-fluid' which makes me think the pronoun may change frequently)? Will there be history tracking so when a mod says 'she' and gets called on it by a 'he' it can be shown that the expressed preference has changed since a response was written?
You couldn't do a better job of building a system of unavoidable traps if you were actively trying to sabotage the system. By the time this is all done every.single.moderator will be guaranteed to have violated the CoC at least once and can be censured or fired for it on a whim.
- morelisp 7y ago> Will all Stack Exchange sites add a "pronouns" field to user profiles that can be displayed along with user IDs? You ask this rhetorically and like it's some big challenge, but it's genuinely a good idea and straightforward to implement for any community site.
- michannne 7y agoThe answer to the questions asked on StackExchange have nothing to do with the gender of the asker, they are intended for anyone who has the same question.
- morelisp 7y agoMeanwhile, for those of us not ascended to a Platonic space but are still in the real world, Stack Exchange remains people talking to each other.
- michannne 7y agoFrom your derogatory reply, I can expect that the new policy on SO is to not lock duplicate questions, then, seeing as how it's a forum for conversation, instead of a Q&A platform.
- MauranKilom 7y agoThere is other communication happening on the site. You may not care about it, but it happens and is a vital part of the site.
- eecc 7y agoBut then why only pronouns? Are you deliberately ignoring intersectional discrimination? All possible categories must be included lest one identity group is singled out for cancellation. /s
- morelisp 7y agoThe answer to this is fairly obvious if you would avoid having a knee-jerk reaction: Because the dimension of gender inflects grammar, even in "ungendered" languages like English, but even moreso in most Romance or Germanic languages. This is literally the reason many signup forms ask for gender - to know which pronouns to use. Why not just ask that? In languages which have other inflections, those fields are also often asked for - I've worked on software that needed to support Korean honorifics, and even in German you get dropdowns for "Dr." vs. "Prof. Dr.", "Prof. Dr. med.", etc.
- 9HZZRfNlpR 7y agoGerman language doesn't even have different words for sex and gender, they are the same. It's just Americans pushing their latest group think on rest of they world. The whole pronoun issue is absurd and invented problem.