LJ Gender policing policy Signal Boost

[slashfairy]

ETA: see LJ's response (exactly similar to the one I received) here, thanks to sekiun (whoever you are)

from Synedochic at DW via Ithiliana at LJ:

* Gender will be a mandatory field at account creation, and it will be able to appear public on one's profile. (I can't tell if people with existing gender specification will be defaulted to "

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[sekiun]

Below find an unedited response from the LJ team about my feedback.

Below is an answer to your support question regarding "Gender Specificity"
(http://www.livejournal.com/support/see_request.bml?id=1029523&auth=3m86).

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Thank you for taking the time to contact us with your concerns. We understand that gender is not binary, and intend to respect that understanding for our users.

At this time, the code you reference is not live on the site, and will not become so in the future. We know that you, and many other users, have serious concerns about any requirement to specify gender, so we'd like to take a moment to explain events and our position further.

The intention of this code was to change the sign-up process to include a field for the selection of gender; that the code would completely disable the "Unspecified" option at the same time was deemed unacceptable. While the code in question had gone to our beta (testing) server, it had not gone to our production server, and will not do so due to this problem. Furthermore, we'd like to clarify that code posted to the changelog community is not always final, as such code must then go through the beta testing process and can often be changed before actual implementation.

Additionally, some erroneous information has been spread regarding the potential public display of the gender field. We would like to clarify that gender is not currently publicly displayed on the profile, nor anywhere else on the site, and there are no plans to change this behavior.

Regards,
LiveJournal Community Care Team

[slashfairy]

Right, I just got this response back to my feedback, too.

Thanks, will link in an ETA in my posts.

It's good that they responded so quickly.