Small thing, for some reason because I only picked one set of pronouns, it displays on my profile as he/him / none. Bit odd, there should probably just be the ability to tack on as many pronouns as you need rather than specifically everyone getting 2 sets. Obviously there'd need to be a limit to how many get displayed next to the username just for UX reasons, but there could just as easily be a system of like "he/him, they/them, ..." with ellipsis indicating sort of that there's more, and you can move your mouse over for a hover.
I think it was briefly an open text field when they added the feature here, but some shitlibs added slurs and things like “PROUD PATSOC” instead of pronouns.
I like the idea of adding more pronouns though :trans-heart:
Yes such things would need a decent filter to be able to hold stuff for review, so that it doesn't just become :reddit-logo: flairs and remains specifically just pronouns. It's not just about the tools, it's about maintaining a certain site culture, or else these things don't have the intended effect of making people feel welcome
I think the /none on the profile is a bug with how they’re stored. Ideally, infinite pronouns would be the way to go. Or just open text box. However, the most I’ve ever seen was Pixelfed at 4 and it didn’t have e/em, for example, it has e as one and em as another one. So using the standard pair, it’s still only two sets (which I do understand I useful for people who use sets like she/they)
Example: that one transphobe who keeps making “love/loves” accounts, spamming slurs, getting banned, and then posting on their next account “WHY DOES THE ADMINS HATE THE TRANS”
Well a series of textboxes is really how it'd have to work, what with neopronouns and stuff. You just give people, say, up to 20 pronouns (with users being able to specify as many or as few as they like) and each one can be up to idk, 20 characters each, for at most 400 bytes of data per user. As long as it's a fixed amount of data and there isn't any issues with display there isn't really any reason not to. Admittedly my given limits are a little arbitrary, it could just as easily be 30 or 40, but so is the current system.
I'd almost be tempted to do a dumb deep learning thing just to guess how likely the contents of a textbox are to be a pronoun or not just to make this something moderatable, but ah, coursework.
Some programming subreddit recently added pronoun flairs and someone has this/self pronouns, which would probably get flagged as taking the piss but is pretty nifty if you ask me
Well the point isn't to make the AI decide whether you're taking the piss, it just decides whether there's a reasonable likelihood you're totally taking the piss (i.e. just writing fuck/off as your pronouns) and holding off on assignment until a moderator manually confirms. Upon doing so, the pronouns are added to a whitelist and it never asks again for that specific set of pronouns.
I believe 2 was arrived at because of design constraints. The design accounts for if you have a max length username and two sets of our longest pronouns, it’ll wrap in a way that looks nice
I can definitely understand, sometimes it's easiest to just do things the simple way for webdev rather than make something a huge hassle, and what we have is definitely a vastly superior system to what other websites use.
Small thing, for some reason because I only picked one set of pronouns, it displays on my profile as he/him / none. Bit odd, there should probably just be the ability to tack on as many pronouns as you need rather than specifically everyone getting 2 sets. Obviously there'd need to be a limit to how many get displayed next to the username just for UX reasons, but there could just as easily be a system of like "he/him, they/them, ..." with ellipsis indicating sort of that there's more, and you can move your mouse over for a hover.
I think it was briefly an open text field when they added the feature here, but some shitlibs added slurs and things like “PROUD PATSOC” instead of pronouns.
I like the idea of adding more pronouns though :trans-heart:
Yes such things would need a decent filter to be able to hold stuff for review, so that it doesn't just become :reddit-logo: flairs and remains specifically just pronouns. It's not just about the tools, it's about maintaining a certain site culture, or else these things don't have the intended effect of making people feel welcome
I think the /none on the profile is a bug with how they’re stored. Ideally, infinite pronouns would be the way to go. Or just open text box. However, the most I’ve ever seen was Pixelfed at 4 and it didn’t have e/em, for example, it has e as one and em as another one. So using the standard pair, it’s still only two sets (which I do understand I useful for people who use sets like she/they)
open textboxes will get used as a flair system for memes and jokes, unfortunately
Example: that one transphobe who keeps making “love/loves” accounts, spamming slurs, getting banned, and then posting on their next account “WHY DOES THE ADMINS HATE THE TRANS”
I haven't seen loves in a bit. I figured love'd pop into this thread. it's right up loves alley.
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Well a series of textboxes is really how it'd have to work, what with neopronouns and stuff. You just give people, say, up to 20 pronouns (with users being able to specify as many or as few as they like) and each one can be up to idk, 20 characters each, for at most 400 bytes of data per user. As long as it's a fixed amount of data and there isn't any issues with display there isn't really any reason not to. Admittedly my given limits are a little arbitrary, it could just as easily be 30 or 40, but so is the current system.
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I'd almost be tempted to do a dumb deep learning thing just to guess how likely the contents of a textbox are to be a pronoun or not just to make this something moderatable, but ah, coursework.
Some programming subreddit recently added pronoun flairs and someone has
this/selfpronouns, which would probably get flagged as taking the piss but is pretty nifty if you ask meWell the point isn't to make the AI decide whether you're taking the piss, it just decides whether there's a reasonable likelihood you're totally taking the piss (i.e. just writing fuck/off as your pronouns) and holding off on assignment until a moderator manually confirms. Upon doing so, the pronouns are added to a whitelist and it never asks again for that specific set of pronouns.
That would actually be a neat function for an automod to do. You could basically run spam filter heuristics so it can continuously get better
TacticalDude777 <attack helicopter/attack helicopters 🤣🤣🤣>
Everyone laughs at the attack helicopter pronouns until the minigun starts to spin. :stalin-gun-1::stfu-terf:
they didn't laught at my stubby wings anymore when i started firing off the rocket pods
I believe 2 was arrived at because of design constraints. The design accounts for if you have a max length username and two sets of our longest pronouns, it’ll wrap in a way that looks nice
I can definitely understand, sometimes it's easiest to just do things the simple way for webdev rather than make something a huge hassle, and what we have is definitely a vastly superior system to what other websites use.