Timeline for Should 'he' to 'they' edits be accepted?
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| Jun 28, 2022 at 20:20 | comment | added | Esther | @CH4B as a female and native English speaker, I still always assume people on the internet are male and use "he" without thinking about it. | |
| Jun 15, 2022 at 16:57 | comment | added | MDeBusk | I, for one, appreciate the specificity of the question. You've made it clear that you aren't asking whether or not those edits should be made in the first place, but in whether or not accepting them improves the forums. | |
| May 19, 2022 at 17:13 | comment | added | CH4B | As someone whose mother tongue is gendered, I'd always say the user is a he - it's weird to me to think otherwise, so that's how I'd write - I honestly think such edits are useless | |
| May 11, 2022 at 8:00 | comment | added | Dan | @pattivacek The circumstances have changed a lot since then, though. This topic is now covered as part of the Code of Conduct since 2019. So using the correct pronouns is a no-brainer. It just boils down to if we should be accepting edits to old posts. | |
| May 10, 2022 at 15:50 | comment | added | pattivacek | Good on you for asking, but good luck. I got dogpiled when I asked a very similar question 8 years ago: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/223412/… | |
| May 7, 2022 at 3:01 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/AskUbuntu/status/1522773477119377408 | ||
| May 6, 2022 at 16:54 | vote | accept | cocomac | ||
| May 6, 2022 at 16:49 | answer | added | Dan | timeline score: 13 | |
| May 6, 2022 at 14:49 | history | edited | cocomac | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 6, 2022 at 10:29 | comment | added | Zanna Mod | I agree with @andrew.46 :) btw, if the text at the start of this question is not a quote, then I suggest changing the blockquote formatting | |
| May 6, 2022 at 4:29 | history | became hot meta post | |||
| May 5, 2022 at 23:46 | comment | added | cocomac | @andrew.46 I agree with you (and I approved it), I do believe that having gender-neutral language makes sense (when reasonable, of course) and is better. I just wasn't totally sure, as a very high-rep user rejected it, and generally mass-editing can cause issues (queue overflow...) if not agreed upon, which is why I wanted to double-check. I generally agree about using gender-neutral language, but the linked answer saying that mass-edits are bad made me hesitate a bit to approve it | |
| May 5, 2022 at 23:39 | comment | added | andrew.46 Mod | On a pedantic note 'one user' is not gender specific and need not be replaced with a gendered pronoun, the edit could have been simply 'you can make that user the owner...'. In general though I have always felt that there is a risk in quibbling about either mass editing or small scale pronoun replacement, the risk being that AU misses the wheel of change completely. For myself I would have approved the edit, not just as a moderator but as a person who believes that the changes sweeping the world in terms of gender are well overdue and something to be fostered in the AU community. | |
| May 5, 2022 at 18:43 | history | asked | cocomac | CC BY-SA 4.0 |