[hackerbabz]

It absolutely says the opposite of that.

> Q15: Is it expected that people go to "About me" to check whether someone has pronouns there when interacting in Q&A?

No. That would be good practice, but it is not required.

[luckylion]

Oh, thanks for pointing that out. I had read the whole shebang yesterday and that Q&A has been added since then. Before the CoC was made public, the (unofficially) communicated approach was that checking the profile was to be mandatory.