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The future of convention web applications
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Collecting some sensitive data for games: Pronouns ! and key triggers #3272

Open stephentihor opened 4 years ago

stephentihor commented 4 years ago

I am asking players about prefered pronouns all the time as part of mainstreaming it and making it part of your profile in Intercode would be really helpful.

There is a related question on gender comfort in characters played and if a game involves romance genders you are comfortable playing romance with but that already gets moderately complex. THough if I do a game with romance elements I need to ask pretty much that.

Lifewise are there any triggers you want us to avoid in a character we cast you in and are there any that you need to avoid anywhere int he game or backstory.

dkapell commented 4 years ago

Pronouns have been an optional part of the User Profile since the site launched for S. We should expose them to the GMs, however.

I don't really think that intercon should be collecting information about which genders people are comfortable playing romance with, or triggers, just like I don't think we should be collecting medical information, but we'll discuss this as a team.

JovialKnoll commented 1 year ago

A potential problem with collecting "genders comfortable for romance with" at the player level is that players could have different preferences for this depending on the game (perhaps a player wants one thing in a romance heavy genre and another in gritty sci-fi, for example).