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Do you know how we would go about doing it? (That's not a snarky Q - I genuinely don't know!). I too would love to but I'm unsure as to how to reliably do it -
by jackfranklin 13y ago
Do you know how we would go about doing it? (That's not a snarky Q - I genuinely don't know!). I too would love to but I'm unsure as to how to reliably do it - and in the mean time gender-neutral was a safer bet.
- chrismorgan 13y agoYou could tie it in with letting the user specify the name to display; changing away from using Twitter handles is probably not a bad thing anyway. Thus you could have as part of the sign-up process: 1. Call me _________ 2. Refer to me as ( ) male ("he") ( ) female ("she") (x) gender-neutral or plural ("they") ( ) actually, we're a group ("they") For e.g. Twitter sign-up, you'd auto-fill the first with their username and the second with gender-neutral. That does sound rather awkward and could hopefully be improved upon. (I added the final option as it occurred to me businesses could use this.)
- danielrmay 13y agoI agree that the concept of displaying "he" or "she" would indeed be an improvement, but I feel as though the only way to get over the awkwardness of the form questions you defined would be to go through some kind of "profile builder". This obviously takes the app to a new place - now talking about some sort of profile system - this would obviously be a huge feature to add with a load of other implications.
- snoonan 13y agoYou can try to avoid it grammatically. @person is looking for help with PHP. In return, @person can help with CSS. I like this because it means each sentence is meaningful out of context and can be separately indexed, searched, etc.
- danielrmay 13y agoI feel this would be the best way forward.