Would you want voluntary gender symbol next to peoples avatar?

[SolidTwilight 383]

So when reading though some of the pages here it can get kind of confusing trying to keep track of what gender the person that is writing the post is (or identify as). On some of the other forums I am on there is a small gender symbol next to there avatar. Would you want this on MLP forums or do you think its better off being anonymous unless you look at a persons profile.

Edited December 29, 2015 by SolidTwilight

[Malinter 3,065]

its rather pointless having that as it would require the user to be honest about what there gender is and some will lie about it for whatever reason. Besides, trying to figure the gender of the other people is part of the fun.

[Jaxsie (Inactive) 1,343]

No, I think adding that would be unnecessary. If you want to know the gender of the person, you can just visit their profile page.

[Unikitty 1,212]

As above, just visit their profile. It's only one click away. And if you're unsure still you can simply use 'they/them', as it has always been.

[Kyoshi Frost Wolf 42,207]

Meh, it would add anything substantial to anything. Clicking on one's profile is simple enough already to see if someone has set such info.

[Discordian 6,023]

One's gender isn't really relevant to a conversation anyway. More clutter for individual posts is all that is.

[Scrubbed user 3,417]

Nah, I think it's irrelevant and unnecessary.

[SolidTwilight 383]

One's gender isn't really relevant to a conversation anyway. More clutter for individual posts is all that is.

It can be depending on the conversion. If someone was to put "I were yoga pants all the time" this could be extremely common or very rare depending on the persons gender.

[Buzz 1,769]

I don't really see the necessaries of it. I come here to talk about ponies with PEOPLE. I don't care what gender they are to start with. All that would do, in my opinion, would lead to some users being 'viewed' more than they would like by other users they don't know.

[SolidTwilight 383]

If you want to know the gender of the person, you can just visit their profile page.

I do, all the time, it starts to get kind of annoying when you do it 20+ times in a single topic. And if your using the mobile view it does not show at all.

Edited December 29, 2015 by SolidTwilight

[Discordian 6,023]

It can be depending on the conversion. If someone was to put "I were yoga pants all the time" this could be extremely common or very rare depending on the persons gender.

...Not sure how one's gender matters in that instance. You could go your whole life not knowing that person's gender and it wouldn't change the statement.

[CoffeeBeard 76]

As the other people already have asked; Why is it so important to know the gender of people in the forums? Will it change the worth of their oppinion, which gender's saying is worth less than the other in that case? 

I don't really see the necessaries of it. I come here to talk about ponies with PEOPLE. I don't care what gender they are to start with. All that would do, in my opinion, would lead to some users being 'viewed' more than they would like by other users they don't know.

It would probably also lead to that some users inboxes would be flooded with messages. Cuz people are people.

[SolidTwilight 383]

...Not sure how one's gender matters in that instance. You could go your whole life not knowing that person's gender and it wouldn't change the statement.

it is extremely common for females to were yoga pants (you know, the skin tight most of the time black pants you see girls were alot) but it is very rare for males to were them or things like them. so it it was a female author, they would be saying "I do something that other people my gender do all the time" but if it was a male, they would be saying "I do something that is very uncommon for my gender"

[Jaxsie (Inactive) 1,343]

I do, all the time, it starts to get kind of annoying when you do it 20+ times in a single topic. And if your using the mobile view it does not show at all.

I fail to see the reason why ones gender is important to most topics here. What a person posts should stand or fall on what was said; not who they are.

[CoffeeBeard 76]

it is extremely common for females to were yoga pants (you know, the skin tight most of the time black pants you see girls were alot) but it is very rare for males to were them or things like them. so it it was a female author, they would be saying "I do something that other people my gender do all the time" but if it was a male, they would be saying "I do something that is very uncommon for my gender"

You mean, like saying that we guys watch My Little Pony? I think it's still pretty uncommon amongst the male gender. 

[SolidTwilight 383]

most topics

by using the word "most" are you saying that gender is important to "some" topics?

[Comic Sans 402]

I don't think a feature like this would really matter or be important, to be honest.

[Jaxsie (Inactive) 1,343]

by using the word "most" are you saying that gender is important to "some" topics?

I'm not going to be PC and say that gender doesn't matter in some cases. For example, Nightmare Muffin had a thread called "Women who shave their faces." Key word, women. Out of curiosity, would you want to know if a person that says they're okay with it is male or female? Of course. Does what they say change based on their gender? No. In most cases, as I said, gender doesn't matter. But with issues or topics pertaining to a certain gender, it matters in the sense of you wanting to know whose who on a topic so that you have a well-rounded view. If you're talking about what your favorite song is, it doesn't matter one iota.

Edited December 29, 2015 by Jaxsie

[Discordian 6,023]

it is extremely common for females to were yoga pants (you know, the skin tight most of the time black pants you see girls were alot) but it is very rare for males to were them or things like them. so it it was a female author, they would be saying "I do something that other people my gender do all the time" but if it was a male, they would be saying "I do something that is very uncommon for my gender"

Why is it so important that you know someone's gender for that though? They wear yoga pants. Yay. Topic has served its purpose. Gender irrelevant. You don't really need to know whether they're doing something common or not.

 

You're making a huge deal out of nothing. Gender identification is useless in almost all situations. It should never be used for anything more than description but by using it to infer things like commonality you're creating the basis of stereotypes.

 

That may not be your intention but it's the path you're walking.

[SolidTwilight 383]

I'm not going to be PC and say that gender doesn't matter in some cases. For example, Nightmare Muffin had a thread called "Women who shave their faces." Key word, women. Out of curiosity, would you want to know if a person that says they're okay with it is male or female? Of course. Does what they say change based on their gender? No. In most cases, as I said, gender doesn't matter. But with issues or topics pertaining to a certain gender, it matters in the sense of you wanting to know whose who on a topic so that you have a well-rounded view. If you're talking about what your favorite song is, it doesn't matter one iota.

This is exactly my feeling on this topic. could not have put it better my self.

[Jaxsie (Inactive) 1,343]

This is exactly my feeling on this topic. could not have put it better my self.

I don't think you got my point entirely. Gender identification next to people's avatars is irrelevant because gender specific topics make up a minute amount threads; and therefore would be unnecessary most of the time.

Edited December 29, 2015 by Jaxsie

[SolidTwilight 383]

I don't think you got my point entirely. Gender identification next to people's avatars is irrelevant because gender specific topics make up a minute amount threads; and therefore would be unnecessary most of the time.

but it's not unnecessary all the time. I can see your point as to it being unnecessary most of the time but you don't have to to look at it most of the time ether, it would just be a small thing that you may not even see if you don't look for it.

[Envy 6,483]

Meh, it would add anything substantial to anything. Clicking on one's profile is simple enough already to see if someone has set such info.

 

Yet most people don't do that, and automatically assume everyone is male and use male pronouns. For purpose of pronouns it is completely necessary. Unless people would learn to use gender-neutral pronouns for people they do not know the gender of... But, no, that's way too hard of a task for people, it seems.

[Flutter's lover <3 8,210]

I'm staff on another forum that has this, It's also optional on this other forum to display it or not..  and it really serves no purpose other than identifying the poster as male or female and saving a click to their profile. Which in the majority of topics discussed on the forum, is irrelevant. There are a very few set of topics where gender actually matters, but if you're posting in such a topic, it's assumed that all the posters in that thread are of the gender the topic is about. All this would dois save everyone a click to their profile. It's not really "important" perse..and it'd just clutter up the avatar side of the post. 

 

TL;DR : if the gender of the person you're talking to really matters that much to you, just click on their profile to find out.

[Gestum 2,493]

I don't really think that it's necessary in most cases.

 

Though I would use it if it was available.