Re: gender field in registration system

On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 6:44 PM Mattias Bengtsson <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On tis, 2015-08-04 at 14:23 +0200, Alexandre Franke wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 7:08 AM, Marina Zhurakhinskaya
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Hi Alexandre,
> >
> > Hey,
> >
> > > Thank you for relating this. I think the downside of someone
> > > getting
> > > an invitation they are not interested in is relatively small, so
> > > it's
> > > probably not worth having a separate checkbox for opt in for an
> > > invitation. I know people prefer to keep the registration page
> > > short.
> >
> > That's because you're in a US-centric mindset. There's a difference
> > between the law in the US and in Europe: US is opt-out by default,
> > Europe is opt-in by default.
> >
> > European people see unsolicited contact as a very bad thing, and the
> > usual "Here's a piece of information about our thing, if you don't
> > want to hear from us again just unsubscribe using the link at the
> > bottom" is actually not ok.
>
> Oh come on! It's just an E-mail. It's not like anyone's getting
> unwanted phone calls, it's also directly related to an event you have
> signed up for.
>
> Also the thing about European vs American mindset... Neither Europeans
> nor US citizens are homogeneous groups. The opinions will surely differ
> more between citizens inside a country or continent than the aggregate
> opinion will differ between continents and countries.
>
> Regards,
> Mattias
>

+1


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