Gender as Text Field vs Radio Button
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Gender as Text Field vs Radio Button
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I don't know if this belongs here, but we should be able to type our genders, just so that we can proudly have a Chuckman Level Chuckman who is a Chuckman situated at Chuckman.
I don't know if this belongs here, but we should be able to type our genders, just so that we can proudly have a Chuckman Level Chuckman who is a Chuckman situated at Chuckman.
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For people whose gender is non-standard. I have done exactly this at the QuestionableContent forums, where I've removed the binary "gender" option and added a free-text "personal information" field in its place.
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"Life is becoming more and more indistinguishable from Onion articles." ~Monk Ed
"Oh my gods, that is awesome. I am inclined to forgive both Grant and the dub in general for that." ~Bagheera
"I don't try to engage in intelligent conversation here anymore."~Chee
"Look, if loving a clone of your mom is wrong, I don't wanna be right." ~Chuckman
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The Moats of Quotes
"Life is becoming more and more indistinguishable from Onion articles." ~Monk Ed
"Oh my gods, that is awesome. I am inclined to forgive both Grant and the dub in general for that." ~Bagheera
"I don't try to engage in intelligent conversation here anymore."~Chee
"Look, if loving a clone of your mom is wrong, I don't wanna be right." ~Chuckman
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So it's usually a non-issue - except when it isn't.
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what if "Chuckman" was a gender option?
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"Life is becoming more and more indistinguishable from Onion articles." ~Monk Ed
"Oh my gods, that is awesome. I am inclined to forgive both Grant and the dub in general for that." ~Bagheera
"I don't try to engage in intelligent conversation here anymore."~Chee
"Look, if loving a clone of your mom is wrong, I don't wanna be right." ~Chuckman
|Why angels fight.|What Bagheera is talking about.|
The Moats of Quotes
"Life is becoming more and more indistinguishable from Onion articles." ~Monk Ed
"Oh my gods, that is awesome. I am inclined to forgive both Grant and the dub in general for that." ~Bagheera
"I don't try to engage in intelligent conversation here anymore."~Chee
"Look, if loving a clone of your mom is wrong, I don't wanna be right." ~Chuckman
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Chuckman is the only gender option.
Though, Gob still might look good in a cocktail dress.
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In the case of QC, considering some things brought up in the comic, it seems like a perfectly reasonable option to have.
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Eh intersex is like the minority of the minority, trans people will usually just pick the gender they identify with online (my friend does it everywhere but she is the only person i have experience to draw from) so it really isn't too big of an issue unless somebody joins and starts complaining about a lack of an [other] option, though just for shits and giggles it would be a funny feature.
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The Twelve Kingdoms discussion thread
People already put all sorts of things in their location and occupation options, so I see no reason not to do the same for gender. For some it'd be for a laugh, and for others it may be more comfortable for them to put something other than male or female; then for others they simply wouldn't care.
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Rosenakahara wrote:Eh intersex is like the minority of the minority, trans people will usually just pick the gender they identify with online (my friend does it everywhere but she is the only person i have experience to draw from) so it really isn't too big of an issue unless somebody joins and starts complaining about a lack of an [other] option, though just for shits and giggles it would be a funny feature.
And given that there is no difficulty in providing flexibility, what is your argument for not doing so, and thereby preventing those (few) people who would benefit from it being able to?
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Never gave one, just pointing out its not necessary......but it would be nice.
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i think people are misunderstanding me here, I'm not opposed to the idea and saying it is not necessary does not mean much as technically we don't need avatars as they are not necessary, hell why even have a theme that isn't necessary.
That is all fluff to make the site more appealing but we still have it because we want that stuff, my posts here were pretty much a response to the previous shitstorm about the topic as in: everyone should chill, no need to get up in arms about it, harmless feature that doesn't matter and only adds.
The minority of the minority thing though? that was just me playing the devil's advocate.
Yes i waited till the thread was made just to post this, i have no life.
That is all fluff to make the site more appealing but we still have it because we want that stuff, my posts here were pretty much a response to the previous shitstorm about the topic as in: everyone should chill, no need to get up in arms about it, harmless feature that doesn't matter and only adds.
The minority of the minority thing though? that was just me playing the devil's advocate.
Yes i waited till the thread was made just to post this, i have no life.
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What is going on is a concerted effort from anti-progressives to silence anyone who disagrees with them.-Bagheera 2016
The Twelve Kingdoms discussion thread
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The code for the gender stuff wasn't mine, was lifted as one of those phpbb hacks, and like anything involving the profile, spans pretty much throughout the entire system including the admin pages. While changing what it displays given the BIT that is stored in the database (1, 0, or NULL), is easy enough, but changing the system so that you can arbitrarily enter anything for that field (right now it's just a BIT) isn't a trivial change, and so far, I'm not convinced I should make time to put in that work.
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Fair enough; The QC forum software has the facility to turn off any fields in the profile, and to add newly defined ones, so I could do it without programming (unless I want to display the new field next to posts). I didn't have to change the gender field, because I replaced it.
As a matter of interest, we considered (and rejected) having no means to specify gender at all.
As a matter of interest, we considered (and rejected) having no means to specify gender at all.
"Being human, having your health; that's what's important." (from: Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi )
"As long as we're all living, and as long as we're all having fun, that should do it, right?" (from: The Eccentric Family )
Avatar: The end of the journey (details); Past avatars.
Before 3.0+1.0 there was Afterwards... my post-Q Evangelion fanfic (discussion)
"As long as we're all living, and as long as we're all having fun, that should do it, right?" (from: The Eccentric Family )
Avatar: The end of the journey (details); Past avatars.
Before 3.0+1.0 there was Afterwards... my post-Q Evangelion fanfic (discussion)
No shame in that.
Ornette: it sounds like a lot of work, and any attempt to accommodate others at your own expense is certainly admirable. If you should decide against it, I think that would be fair enough.
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