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davidsev Level 20 Vigilante Posts: 338	It should say people gender under there names when they post. It would be handy both for knowing which pronouns to use, and would also encourage people to put the info in there profiles. by davidsev about 1 month ago \| Permalink
sylverling Steward Level 16 Vigilante Posts: 1321	Maybe people don't want to put their info in their profiles... :-) by sylverling about 1 month ago \| Permalink
sylverling Steward Level 16 Vigilante Posts: 1321	Hey, be nice please...were the editorial comments really necessary? (Besides, that copy is, I'm guessing, what he uses to come up with awesome greasemonkey scripts for things like blowing up PMOG pmails. It's not a "crappy hack copy.") It's no different from any other forum - where you may or may not know the gender of the person you're speaking to - you work around it. Mostly I find it kind of amusing if someone refers to me as "he," and cheerfully correct them. by sylverling about 1 month ago \| Permalink
pixielo Steward Level 20 Vigilante Posts: 3659	Yup...I side with privacy. by pixielo about 1 month ago \| Permalink
chava Steward Level 18 Vigilante Posts: 1786	I agree with sylverling, he always has dead on comments. I wish I was more like him. Penis. by chava about 1 month ago \| Permalink
nieman Level 18 Vigilante Posts: 1108	uhm this has nothing to do with privacy folks. -if- it's on your profile, it should be linked to your post. -if- it's not on your profile... there's nothing to link. by nieman about 1 month ago \| Permalink
davidsev Level 20 Vigilante Posts: 338	Where the hell did you find a link to that? I totally can't remember why I put that there, probably showing someone something or other... Anywho, you found a load of public info about me. Woo. Nothing private there. Had you found all the hax stuff on there, I may have been worried about my privacy, but meh. And my gender is on my profile. I don't care if you know. If I had more time I'd make a GM script to do it for me. by davidsev about 1 month ago \| Permalink
chava Steward Level 18 Vigilante Posts: 1786	Genders? In my forums? by chava about 1 month ago \| Permalink
sylverling Steward Level 16 Vigilante Posts: 1321	@nieman I was responding to the part of davidsev's post that talked about encouraging people to fill out their profile info. Overall...does it really matter? If you wanna know someone's gender, how hard is it to just click on the link to their name? And if you find they are a gender you don't like or if you don't like that they don't list it, just mine 'em. @chava: You know, I always wonder why people think that "hits like a girl" is a bad thing...grin by sylverling about 1 month ago \| Permalink
chava Steward Level 18 Vigilante Posts: 1786	Yes... a bunch by chava about 1 month ago \| Permalink
nieman Level 18 Vigilante Posts: 1108	bah, I wish they would disable post deletion. by nieman about 1 month ago \| Permalink
burdenday Trustee Level 14 Bedouin Posts: 920	I'll also run this request by the appropriate parties. Thanks again for the feedback. by burdenday about 1 month ago \| Permalink
pixielo Steward Level 20 Vigilante Posts: 3659	There is zero reason to disable post deletion by pixielo about 1 month ago \| Permalink
chetyre Steward Level 12 Vigilante Posts: 1039	I don't see a problem with disabling random post deletion, but instead of nuking the entire message, leave a placeholder or something that says "This post has been deleted by XXXX". by chetyre about 1 month ago \| Permalink
spikeyboy Level 13 Bedouin Posts: 1017	Agreed - I'm guessing from the content we've had another headstrong teen hanging about, badmouthing people. by spikeyboy about 1 month ago \| Permalink
uselessness Level 14 Bedouin Posts: 735	I'm late to this party, but I want to second chetyre's idea of at least leaving a "this post has been deleted" notice so we don't have to piece together what happened from conversational holes on our own. ;-) As for gender, why not? If it's on our profiles, it should be here too. If it's not, fuggedaboudit. No privacy issue. by uselessness about 1 month ago \| Permalink
nieman Level 18 Vigilante Posts: 1108	uh pixielo, if there was zero reason, it wouldn't have been asked for, now would there? by nieman about 1 month ago \| Permalink
sylverling Steward Level 16 Vigilante Posts: 1321	people ask for things like vegetarian burritos with chicken in. that doesn't mean it should be done. just sayin'. edit: okay, so i failed to reread up and didn't realise that nieman was responding to pix's comment about not disabling post deletion. heh. i like being able to delete my posts because i often rethink the things that i write and sometimes realise i shouldn't say them. even placeholders would make that weird. but disabling it after a certain amount of time could be ok - cos if i'm gonna delete a post, i'm usually gonna do it in the first five minutes after posting it. here's one other thing to consider. if someone deletes their account, all their posts disappear too. what about those? causes the same type of confusion. by sylverling about 1 month ago \| Permalink
davidsev Level 20 Vigilante Posts: 338	I recall someone saying they were looking into ways around that problem. Lots of forums say you can only delete for 5 minutes or until someone else posts. You can still delete your post by editing it, but then its obvious. by davidsev about 1 month ago \| Permalink
pixielo Steward Level 20 Vigilante Posts: 3659	I think that's part of the charm...post deletion is a nice feature. by pixielo about 1 month ago \| Permalink
nieman Level 18 Vigilante Posts: 1108	Yea, I'm all for allowing deletion within a certain short time frame (as long as no one posted afterwards... then just edit it into a placeholder or something) would solve a lot of problems. by nieman about 1 month ago \| Permalink

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