A pronouns field, asked for in earnest.

[Airee]

This is something of a response to the this suggestion being declined. I understand the person who made this thread is a shitlord, but that's not who I am and I'm not making this post to make fun of people.
I know this site wants to become a better platform and that this is something the team at MC-Market genuinely would like to add, but you guys are letting the vocal minority control the direction of the website.

This suggestion is being denied.
1) Because it was created for the above malicious purposes

I really hope that I can be given the benefit of a doubt as to this being created for malicious purposes. I've been here for a very long time, haven't caused much trouble, and consider myself an advocate for and ally of transgendered and nonbinary people.

2) Offering an option like this will only make it easier for those with malicious intent to target those with preferred pronouns and harass them or discriminate against them. The great thing about online business is you can’t see who’s on the other end of the screen. The vast majority of people who are struggling to find acceptance and tolerance prefer to blend in with everyone else as much as possible, not advertise their situation to people who are desperate to degrade them.

Here's an idea to deal with this: pre-populate it from the profile gender field.
Displaying your pronouns isn't advertising a "situation." I'm a cis man and I've put my pronouns in my Twitter bio & forum user title. I just like to let people know how they should call me.
This would allow people to blend in and let people know if they prefer to be called by pronouns that are against people's immediate assumption about them.

3) Having a user-input gender field will be abused by people like Cade who want to mock those with non-binary pronoun preferences. The staff team does not have the time or resources or ability to validate who is being serious, and who’s attempting to use the granted freedom to sabotage the image of everyone else.

I think there's a couple good solutions to this off the top of my head:

• Treat their abuse of systems on MC-Market as abuse and action against it. These people are trolls.
• Offer a pre-determined selection of pronouns. This would mitigate pretty much all abuse and perhaps support can manually set it to something if someone genuinely lays somewhere other than he/him, she/her, they/them. As a gay man with a lot of friends and involvement in LGBTQIA+ spaces and communities, I feel those are fairly inclusive and most non-binary people go for they/them and that the rest won't place a major burden on the support staff.

Alternative to all of this, just add a non-binary (they/them) option to the existing gender options. In my opinion, it's the least you guys could do to support non-binary people and make this a more inclusive platform.

 

[Airee]

Effective immediately, I am retiring from the Minecraft community and taking up work on a farm shoveling pig shit and administering anal suppositories to sick horses.
I hate you all and I regret making this suggestion. This went so much worse than the my wildest nightmares.
Justis, your idea of removing the gender field as a whole makes the most sense with the level of maturity this community has demonstrated.
I was so wrong, MCM can't handle this.

 

[callmoo]

Effective immediately, I am retiring from the Minecraft community and taking up work on a farm shoveling pig shit and administering anal suppositories to sick horses.
I hate you all and I regret making this suggestion. This went so much worse than the my wildest nightmares.
Justis, your idea of removing the gender field as a whole makes the most sense with how the level of maturity this community has demonstrated.
I was so wrong, MCM can't handle this.

Mind if I join you? Sounds like bliss compared to the situation here :rofl:

 

[Sullybash12]

Effective immediately, I am retiring from the Minecraft community and taking up work on a farm shoveling pig shit and administering anal suppositories to sick horses.
I hate you all and I regret making this suggestion. This went so much worse than the my wildest nightmares.
Justis, your idea of removing the gender field as a whole makes the most sense with the level of maturity this community has demonstrated.
I was so wrong, MCM can't handle this.

Here's an idea. Don't jump to extremes - exactly what you just did. Along with this, you just caused more drama with this statement.

Also, it's literally a Minecraft forum with a bunch of immature people (mostly). What did you expect? Was this suggestion needed? Probably not, but not what I'm trying to get at - can they handle this? no.