Hello! Happy Monday!

We're kicking off this exciting week right and rolling out a feature I originally proposed back in January: mandatory pronouns! You'll be disappointed to know that my original proposal - which was to require pronouns at signup, and not allow any pages to be viewed for existing users until they set their pronouns, and these were all from a preset list of pronouns and neopronouns - did not come to pass, and the final product is the much more clever, much less hateful variant you see before you now. Everyone is a nice, gender neutral they/them by default. This cannot be avoided and is a million times smarter than disabling the site until pronouns are set and I am VERY EXCITED about this.

If you're not a they/them, that's totally okay! Just head on over to your settings page and you can correctly gender yourself.

Going forward, please remember to respect others' pronoun preferences. We've been lenient about this in the past, due to the confusion inherent in not having a dedicated pronouns field (and we are deeply sorry for the harm this caused), but now there is no excuse for misgendering your fellow rDrama users. It's 2022 and while the United States regresses to 1822 around us, we will not fall with them. Hate has no home here, and failure (read: willful refusal) to respect your fellow users' identities will not be tolerated.

Have a great week!

there is a typo in the code we forgot an s lol wait a minute while this is merged and server restarts, then you can change your pronouns

RESOLVED