best practices for sites which provide pronoun fields?

[Matthew Miller]

On Ask Fedora and Fedora Discussion, we have a profile field for pronouns.
It is an open text string where people can provide what they want.

I have noticed that many people have, somewhat confusingly, given their
first name or username here. Others have given what I suppose they think are
clever responses, which are generally (as my kids say) more cringe than
cute.

I am thinking that it may be best to have a limited-option dropdown, with
these choices:

* [blank]
* she / her / hers
* he/ him / his
* they / them / theirs
* other (see profile)

... with the last option for folks who sincerely use neopronouns, or if
someone _really_ wants to use their profile space to go on about their
personal beliefs on the topic for some reason.

Your advice appreciated.

[Marie Nordin]

Hi Matthew,

Thank you for raising this topic with the DEI team- we have a call later
today and I have added this to our agenda.

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Marie Nordin

Fedora Community Action and Impact Coordinator

Red Hat https://www.redhat.com/ • Fedora Project https://getfedora.org/

She/Her/Hers

IRC/Element: riecatnor

https://red.ht/sig

On Mon, Mar 28, 2022 at 11:05 AM Matthew Miller 
wrote:
> On Ask Fedora and Fedora Discussion, we have a profile field for pronouns.
> It is an open text string where people can provide what they want.
>
> I have noticed that many people have, somewhat confusingly, given their
> first name or username here. Others have given what I suppose they think
> are
> clever responses, which are generally (as my kids say) more cringe than
> cute.
>
> I am thinking that it may be best to have a limited-option dropdown, with
> these choices:
> [blank]
> she / her / hers
> he/ him / his
> they / them / theirs
> other (see profile)
>
> ... with the last option for folks who sincerely use neopronouns, or if
> someone _really_ wants to use their profile space to go on about their
> personal beliefs on the topic for some reason.
>
> Your advice appreciated.
>
> --
> Matthew Miller
>
> Fedora Project Leader
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[Justin W. Flory (he/him)]

I mirrored this thread to the Discourse site[1], see below.

[1] https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/best-practices-for-sites-which-provid...

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------- Original Message -------

On Monday, March 28th, 2022 at 11:14, Marie Nordin  wrote:
> Hi Matthew,
> Thank you for raising this topic with the DEI team- we have a call later today and I have added this to our agenda.
> --
> Marie Nordin
> Fedora Community Action and Impact Coordinator
> Red Hat • Fedora Project
> She/Her/Hers
> IRC/Element: riecatnor
> On Mon, Mar 28, 2022 at 11:05 AM Matthew Miller  wrote:
> > On Ask Fedora and Fedora Discussion, we have a profile field for pronouns.
> > It is an open text string where people can provide what they want.
> > I have noticed that many people have, somewhat confusingly, given their
> > first name or username here. Others have given what I suppose they think are
> > clever responses, which are generally (as my kids say) more cringe than
> > cute.
> > I am thinking that it may be best to have a limited-option dropdown, with
> > these choices:
> > [blank]
> > she / her / hers
> > he/ him / his
> > they / them / theirs
> > other (see profile)
> > ... with the last option for folks who sincerely use neopronouns, or if
> > someone _really_ wants to use their profile space to go on about their
> > personal beliefs on the topic for some reason.
> > Your advice appreciated.
> > --
> > Matthew Miller
> >
> > Fedora Project Leader
> >
> > Fedora Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Team mailing list -- [e-mail]
> > To unsubscribe send an email to [e-mail]
> > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/
> > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
> > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[e-mail]....
> > Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure