Joined: 13 May 2017 Age: 30 Gender: Male Posts: 5 Location: United States
13 May 2017, 6:04 am
Just noticed this when I registered my account a little while ago, but the field "gender" is required, and only allows the options of male and female -- many autistic people identify as non-binary, agender, genderfluid, or otherwise gender non-conforming (and may also be intersex), so it would be great if the admins would at least consider adding an "other" option instead. The whole field could also be optional too instead of required. Thanks!
Joined: 23 May 2017 Age: 53 Gender: Male Posts: 16 Location: Birmingham, UK
28 May 2017, 8:10 pm
I'm not sure if it's just my computer but I couldn't sign up because the captcha verification wasn't displayed in either Google Chrome nor Microsoft Edge, I don't have Firefox installed. I tried signing up a few months ago too, maybe even a year ago, if I remember correctly I ran into the same problem and gave up. The only reason I'm here now is because this time it occurred to me to try using my phone's browser, that did display the captcha so I was able to complete the sign up process. I'm the sort of person who often reinstalls Windows so it's unlikely to be a configuration problem with my operating system on both occasions. I also tried disabling Adblock and also using Crome's incognito browsing mode but to no avail.
It may be worth someone else checking this out too because if it's as it appears to be to me it could be keeping potential new members of the forum away
Joined: 3 Sep 2017 Gender: Female Posts: 2,388 Location: "I know there's nothing we can do. But my heart can't accept it." "If this is real, then I want to change the future."
03 Sep 2017, 4:52 pm
Highly recommend a Sports section in Topical Discussion.
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Joined: 1 Jun 2014 Gender: Male Posts: 77,612 Location: United Kingdom
03 Sep 2017, 5:14 pm
^ Agreed. There is a 'Health, Fitness and Sports' forum, but hardly anyone goes there to discuss sport as an entertainment or from a spectating point of view.
I think it would make things a lot easier if we were to get notifications on post on the site it self rather than getting them through email or having to keep going back to the post to check if anyone has replied.
I think it would make things a lot easier if we were to get notifications on post on the site it self rather than getting them through email or having to keep going back to the post to check if anyone has replied.
Yep.
I'd also like a working way to go to the next new post of a topic.
I'm not sure if it's just my computer but I couldn't sign up because the captcha verification wasn't displayed in either Google Chrome nor Microsoft Edge, I don't have Firefox installed. I tried signing up a few months ago too, maybe even a year ago, if I remember correctly I ran into the same problem and gave up. The only reason I'm here now is because this time it occurred to me to try using my phone's browser, that did display the captcha so I was able to complete the sign up process. I'm the sort of person who often reinstalls Windows so it's unlikely to be a configuration problem with my operating system on both occasions. I also tried disabling Adblock and also using Crome's incognito browsing mode but to no avail.
It may be worth someone else checking this out too because if it's as it appears to be to me it could be keeping potential new members of the forum away
Joined: 13 May 2011 Age: 55 Gender: Male Posts: 13,144 Location: The end of the northwest passage
06 Oct 2017, 7:52 pm
Okay, then. We should rename Love and Dating. Maybe Love and Dating for Marginally Misanthropic Desperate Guys, or The Politics and Philosophy of Love and Dating, or simply Troll Festival.
It's more like PPR than GAD in terms of the moderation parameters in its current form. I don't care for it, and I'd like to see a more honest name.
Maybe this is a Boiling Frog. It sure feels hot to me, but I've spent very little time there over the past three or so years until recently. People who have been there as it got more toxic may feel like the water's just fine. It ain't a safe place to discuss love and dating. It isn't even much of an Agony Column, unless you don't know what that means in which case it probably seems a lot like what Agony Column initially sounds like.
Not this Agony Column
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Joined: 7 Jul 2014 Age: 124 Gender: Non-binary Posts: 34,178 Location: Out of my mind
06 Oct 2017, 10:43 pm
TheAP wrote:
cmr94 wrote:
I think it would make things a lot easier if we were to get notifications on post on the site it self rather than getting them through email or having to keep going back to the post to check if anyone has replied.
Yep.
I'd also like a working way to go to the next new post of a topic.
But we already have that, don't we? Works on iPad, anyway. One of the few things that works on iPad!
Joined: 27 Jan 2010 Age: 29 Gender: Male Posts: 8,789 Location: London
17 Oct 2017, 5:57 pm
Scrap the current terrible mods and bring back Hyperlexian!
I am being facetious but Hyperlexian seemed to be the reason L&D kept ticking over.
I don't really go in there much, but I quite agree that it shouldn't be a place for a gender war to be fought. I will speak to the other mods about the merits of changing approach.