String mistake: User is not always "him"
Bug #892888 reported by
Bilal Akhtar
on 2011-11-20
This bug affects 2 people
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Polly |
Medium
|
Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
See attached screenshot. I clicked the link to twitter user @czajkowski and her account is protected. Hence, the green bird was not able to extract her recent tweets, and threw an error with a message that was written with the assumption that every person on Twitter is male.
Using "them" instead of "him" would be a proper fix.
Please fix this before the International Women Rights group starts to protest against the green bird.
| Bilal Akhtar (bilalakhtar) wrote : | #1 |
| Conscious User (conscioususer) wrote : | #3 |
Isn't "them" a weird choice for being plural? I think I'll rephrase to something like "check if the user is being followed".
| Changed in polly: | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| importance: | Undecided → Medium |
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I agree with using "them" instead of using him/her - since not every person on this planet is him or her too (hint: Transgenders)