# Gender Pronouns (original title: Should we have gender-identifiers on the SDMB?)

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gender-pronouns-original-title-should-we-have-gender-identifiers-on-the-sdmb/953846
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [November 5, 2021, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gender-pronouns-original-title-should-we-have-gender-identifiers-on-the-sdmb/953846 "2021-11-05T17:34:55Z")
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### Author: ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2021, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gender-pronouns-original-title-should-we-have-gender-identifiers-on-the-sdmb/953846/47 "2021-11-06T14:00:42Z")

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As **ECG** said in post 8, **color is not an option.**

> [@engineer\_comp\_geek](#):
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> Names are varying shades of gray / black depending on Discourse’s trust level. Regardless of whether you think this is a good idea or not, changing name colors isn’t an option.

As mentioned above, many of us have added preferred pronouns to our profiles. But as mentioned by others, that isn’t all that helpful. Though clicking my avatar brings up a lot of info.

We’ve had threads on the Pronouns and Locations.

> [@Doper locations](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-locations/931343):
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> On the old board, you could often/generally see where Dopers are located. Is this information available on the new board?

> [@Is there any way to show "location" anymore?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-way-to-show-location-anymore/925378):
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> Don’t know if this is ATMB or Site Feedback: is there a way to show location in the new platform? I miss those little glimpses of where posters were from.

> [@I Locationed - Have you? A thread with a Community Benefit](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-locationed-have-you-a-thread-with-a-community-benefit/925454):
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> Hi folks - Just like vBulletin, Discourse has a place for you to enter your location. Which will be displayed if somebody clicks on your avatar. Try mine and look just below the big pink/purple L. Back in vBulletin most of us put something in the location in our profile. Some as a joke, most as legit info. During the conversion to Discourse that info was not transferred. So nearly everybody now has a blank location. And nearly everybody doesn’t know that, and also doesn’t know that they can…

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I can’t find the pronoun thread, sorry. But same idea as location. See how I loaded mine by clicking my avatar.

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