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these aren't really suggestions as much as they're (very easy) things that should have been done a long time ago, but...
remove the gender field
- i shouldn't have to explain why male, female and unspecified being the only options is bad
- male and female aren't the only gender identities so it's inherently unfair to have only those options if one chooses to specify. having an option for each identity out there would make the page too long. unspecified is inaccurate. adding an "other" option could be taken as insulting. making it a text field instead of radio buttons could result in trolling.
- the very existence of the unspecified option basically proves that filling this field out isn't required for joining a forum. it's absolutely pointless and not relevant. just wipe it all off lol
- one can just put their gender and pronouns in the About You section in Personal Details if they wish to anyway
luckily this is an easy thing to do as all it takes is removing a small bit of code on two pages (account_personal_details and register_form), so if you have a reason to say no to this, it's probably invalid
- thread on xenforo support explaining how to remove gender field
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make the date of birth field not required
- why exactly do i have to tell you my date of birth to join a pokemon community? i get you can hide it later, but that doesn't hide it from the admins who have absolutely no use for this information anyway
- the only thing this does is put me on the birthday list. i don't care about being on it and i doubt most people do
- it's not like the forum is age restricted anyway. and if it is, this field wouldn't do anything for obvious reasons
I think there's an option to flip this to "not required" somewhere in the admin cp. it wasn't required before the system upgrade so maybe it got switched to required accidentally?
EDIT: Just realized we still can't put any Gen 7 pokemon as our favourite. Gen 7 is almost over. Maybe this should just be a text field if nobody is going to update it?
EDIT AGAIN: (Also, name changes, please. It's been nearly two years.)
remove the gender field
- i shouldn't have to explain why male, female and unspecified being the only options is bad
- male and female aren't the only gender identities so it's inherently unfair to have only those options if one chooses to specify. having an option for each identity out there would make the page too long. unspecified is inaccurate. adding an "other" option could be taken as insulting. making it a text field instead of radio buttons could result in trolling.
- the very existence of the unspecified option basically proves that filling this field out isn't required for joining a forum. it's absolutely pointless and not relevant. just wipe it all off lol
- one can just put their gender and pronouns in the About You section in Personal Details if they wish to anyway
luckily this is an easy thing to do as all it takes is removing a small bit of code on two pages (account_personal_details and register_form), so if you have a reason to say no to this, it's probably invalid
- thread on xenforo support explaining how to remove gender field
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make the date of birth field not required
- why exactly do i have to tell you my date of birth to join a pokemon community? i get you can hide it later, but that doesn't hide it from the admins who have absolutely no use for this information anyway
- the only thing this does is put me on the birthday list. i don't care about being on it and i doubt most people do
- it's not like the forum is age restricted anyway. and if it is, this field wouldn't do anything for obvious reasons
I think there's an option to flip this to "not required" somewhere in the admin cp. it wasn't required before the system upgrade so maybe it got switched to required accidentally?
EDIT: Just realized we still can't put any Gen 7 pokemon as our favourite. Gen 7 is almost over. Maybe this should just be a text field if nobody is going to update it?
EDIT AGAIN: (Also, name changes, please. It's been nearly two years.)
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