Gender and Religion indicator

I just think it would be nice.  Yes, some people would lie, some people would leave it blank.  But I feel the majority of people would be fairly honest.

I changed my avatar to a cross to identify myself as Christian even though my church kinda frowns on the cross as a symbol.  I'm just trying to get an avatar that makes sense for me.  It would be easy for me to be able to Select "Christian - Other" on a list and have a pretty little dragonfly as my avatar.

True all above which are good ideas, but if we see IC history most of the people that come here lay their intentions out already i.e insulting Islam etc usually people of this kind lay their agenda out as well as their religious belief. As far as the gender part is concerned its another way you can limit someone from discussing issues. For instance in the womens section let's say someone makes a subject which is also titled "WOMENN ONLY" and a male decides to respond in there, the moderators (or those who create this website) could restrict members based on their gender which can also be a form of discrimination. You can make programs which identify members by their gender becaue I have a geek friend of mine who runs the computer cafe at Standford university and he tells me certain programs that he runs he can restrict people for having a certain type of I.D

WHEW!

All in all its possible to run into these problems and all though I'm optimistic about everyone here being honest its not always so. I'd like to think everyones honest but I don't know everyone here so I can't say who and who aren't honest.