It might be possible to automate this—if you’re commenting to someone, pronouns which don’t match their preferences are marked as spelling errors or (if wanted) autocorrected.
I don’t know whether this is worth the trouble to program, but it’ would be kind of cool.
That seems much too hard—pronouns are used in all sorts of contexts; how would it determine who (whether the author of the parent, the OP, or—more likely—nobody who wrote a comment here at all, in which case it has no reference) is being referred to?
If the field isn’t filled in, then posters are still stuck with a situation where what’s wanted isn’t obvious.
Tentative suggestion: a text field in profiles for preferred pronouns.
It might be possible to automate this—if you’re commenting to someone, pronouns which don’t match their preferences are marked as spelling errors or (if wanted) autocorrected.
I don’t know whether this is worth the trouble to program, but it’ would be kind of cool.
That seems much too hard—pronouns are used in all sorts of contexts; how would it determine who (whether the author of the parent, the OP, or—more likely—nobody who wrote a comment here at all, in which case it has no reference) is being referred to?
You’re right.