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Re:Wikimedia enacts new standards to address harassment and ... by thrwaway69 on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @02:12AM (#23307945)
> also pretty much a non-issue, I have never seen pronoun complaints come up on Stack Overflow

Eh, there are. Just because you don't see it doesn't mean there aren't any reports.

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Re:Wikimedia enacts new standards to address harassment and ... by 9nGQluzmnq3M on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @02:15AM (#23307971)
Most users on Stack Overflow use nongendered pseudonyms, and as a Q&A site, they go out of their way to explicitly discourage conversation. If you do need to a reply to a user in the comments, the convention is @username, no pronouns needed.
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