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Marketing. “We want to address them by their first name because it’s so much friendlier and personable”. That’s all I can think of. Not exactly ‘decent’.
by froddd 2y ago
Marketing.
“We want to address them by their first name because it’s so much friendlier and personable”.
That’s all I can think of. Not exactly ‘decent’.
- jsheard 2y agoThat's not hard to do properly though, you can just have a "Full Name" field and a "Nickname" field. Let the user specify how they would like to be addressed informally without baking in any assumptions about how names are structured.
- lucb1e 2y ago> Let the user specify how they would like to be addressed informally Also for formally addressing someone, you need a last name split off of the name in many cultures. Can't write "Very honored mister Schmidt, I regret to inform you that..." if you don't have both the information that this Klaus Schmidt identifies as male and that Klaus must be removed for cultural reasons Nickname sounds like the real solution. Prefix it with "Dear" and let the user fill in the rest, including any mister/misteress/miss/misses they might want -- or not!