As far as the "cat" thing, I think that just sent a very confused message. We've been told since before the pronoun tags existed that they were supposed to be super-serious and never used for any kind of joke. Then as soon as a second pass is done to it, a joke is baked in to the system. Just seems like you should be clearer about what you want.
Who's to say which pronouns are serious and which aren't? To me all pronouns are equally silly, but that doesn't mean I want to ban them all. Just let folks do what they want with their pronouns so long as they're not hurting anyone.
it was used by trolls for transphobic / Racial slurs
The same thing could be said about usernames, but usernames are an important feature, so we find other ways to deal with the folks who abuse them. I think the same logic applies to pronouns. 🤷
As far as the "cat" thing, I think that just sent a very confused message. We've been told since before the pronoun tags existed that they were supposed to be super-serious and never used for any kind of joke. Then as soon as a second pass is done to it, a joke is baked in to the system. Just seems like you should be clearer about what you want.
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Who's to say which pronouns are serious and which aren't? To me all pronouns are equally silly, but that doesn't mean I want to ban them all. Just let folks do what they want with their pronouns so long as they're not hurting anyone.
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The same thing could be said about usernames, but usernames are an important feature, so we find other ways to deal with the folks who abuse them. I think the same logic applies to pronouns. 🤷
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