A few days ago, I reproposed the idea of having pronoun roles on the Discord and a bot to assign them. Since there was some support, I'm bringing the idea to the Board so we're not trying to build consensus on chat meta in chat.

Some folks want a way to indicate their pronouns in the Discord so people can easily look them up or to avoid confusion. Currently, the solution is to add gender markers like ♂ into nicknames, which is a hack and a pain to do.

A seemingly better option is to have a bot (there's a bunch of these running around the internet) that allows people to assign themselves. The only effect these roles would have is that, when you clicked on someone's name, it'd show a badge with text like "she/her" or "they/them".

It might be useful to add a #bot_spam channel or something so that interaction with this bot (or any others we add) is easily mutable.

Thoughts?

- Tomash