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Re:Brothers, I Must Go by tsukurimashou on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @08:33AM (#21124602)
How about we just stick to usernames and don't care about pronouns, I don't care about the gender of the person replying to me. Maybe I miss remember but when I started using the internet we were using usernames and being constantly told not to expose personal information. I feel like people were focusing more easily on whatever their community was dedicated to.
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Re:Brothers, I Must Go by ianleeclark on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @08:42AM (#21124670)
> How about we just stick to usernames and don't care about pronouns

There are some stack exchange sub-sites that this would be reasonable to do, but many others that aren't. That's why. It's pertinent information for a lot of questions that are going to be asked.

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Re:Brothers, I Must Go by tsukurimashou on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @09:18AM (#21124974)
Why not restrict it only where it matters?
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Re:Brothers, I Must Go by ianleeclark on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @09:22AM (#21125013)
> Why not restrict it only where it matters?

It's likely easier for StackOverflow, the corporate entity itself, to only have a single rule-set, rather than have to manage and ensure moderators are adhering to a bunch of different rule-sets.

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Re:Brothers, I Must Go by beerandt on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @08:51PM (#21132487)
I think this points more to the root of the overall problem.
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