• ShittyWallpaper [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    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)

    • silent_water [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      open textboxes will get used as a flair system for memes and jokes, unfortunately

      • MtF_DOOM [she/her,they/them]
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        2 years ago

        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”

    • OutrageousHairdo [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      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.

        • OutrageousHairdo [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          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.

          • ShittyWallpaper [they/them]
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            2 years ago

            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

            • OutrageousHairdo [he/him]
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              2 years ago

              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.

              • ShittyWallpaper [they/them]
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                2 years ago

                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

          • LeninWeave [none/use name]
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            2 years ago

            Everyone laughs at the attack helicopter pronouns until the minigun starts to spin. :stalin-gun-1::stfu-terf:

            • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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              2 years ago

              they didn't laught at my stubby wings anymore when i started firing off the rocket pods

      • HexbearIntern [they/them]
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        2 years ago

        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

        • OutrageousHairdo [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          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.