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by diminoten 2444 days ago
I am still not clear on whether or not avoidance of pronoun use is allowed on SE...
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You will be in less than a week, when the new CoC is officially in place.
What do you mean by 'avoidance of pronoun use'...avoiding them entirely or ignoring some kind of signal about what pronoun a specific person associates with?
How would refusing to use requested pronouns be avoiding? In what way could what I said be interpreted to mean refusal?

It's not clear if speaking in passive voice will be acceptable on SE come October 10th.

Sorry I just don't know what your original comment meant and was trying to understand it better.
Honestly, I think you do.
Hey if you're on the front lines of all this i get not taking what i'm saying at face value, but for what it's worth i am just trying to understand.

I think you're asking if submissions to SE will (or will not) be permitted to dodge the identity issue by writing in a way that avoids pronouns.

This just seems so over the top to me that it's hard to believe, which is why I also included another option. I wouldn't call it 'refusing' as much as 'not bothering to do the legwork for every party you refer to in your content'. Which is, of course, also onerous but possibly a bit less so.

What's over the top about writing in passive voice?