Thank you, LiveJournal! :: Cheers::

Just got an email reply to my feedback left last night:

Below is an answer to your support question regarding "Re: Requiring gender identification"
(http://www.livejournal.com/support/see_request.bml?id=1028941).

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Thank you for taking the time to contact us with your concerns. We understand that gender is not binary, and intend to respect that understanding for our users.

At this time, the code you reference is not live on the site, and will not become so in the future. We know that you, and many other users, have serious concerns about any requirement to specify gender, so we'd like to take a moment to explain events and our position further.

The intention of this code was to change the sign-up process to include a field for the selection of gender; that the code would completely disable the "Unspecified" option at the same time was deemed unacceptable. While the code in question had gone to our beta (testing) server, it had not gone to our production server, and will not do so due to this problem. Furthermore, we'd like to clarify that code posted to the changelog community is not always final, as such code must then go through the beta testing process and can often be changed before actual implementation.

Additionally, some erroneous information has been spread regarding the potential public display of the gender field. We would like to clarify that gender is not currently publicly displayed on the profile, nor anywhere else on the site, and there are no plans to change this behavior.

Regards,
LiveJournal Community Care Team

Bits 'n' pieces and stuff like that there (mostly about fandom)...

Finally starting to feel better after the recent bout of sinus trouble. Had a slow morning at work, so I started drafting an "A.I." fanfic based on one of the 12 Days of Fanfic prompts which someone posted: I had to chuckle since said story is a very innocent fic, and on the same pad of paper, I have some notes for a not-so-innocent fic. This made me think, "Talk about finding out who's naughty or nice..."

Also got my first dirty look of the season for humming Christmas carols while I was working. Seriously: just because I'm blowing air through my vocal chords and causing my lips to resonate and shape the sound, does not mean my hands move any slower. In fact, it means I'm in a good mood and I'm working steadily. Next time I get that just ate a lemon look, it'll be all I can do to keep from humming "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch". We always seem to get at least one Scrooge per year, and their actions can be quite comical in retrospective. Last year it was someone getting in the face of one of the managers... about the Salvation Army bell-ringer's bell being too loud. Buh??

And I have joined yet another fic-writing prompt comm, this time: 30_kisses, which I am devoting to a rare pairing, namely Muraki/Ukyou (Yami no Matsuei, manga continuity), as a series I've entitled "Frail Beauty, Pale Beast". I'm even thinking of creating a fic trailer, using images from the manga (slide-show style), but am divided on what music to use: first choice is The Chairman's Waltz, from John Williams's score for "Memoirs of a Geisha", but I'm also inclined toward "Isfahan" by E.S. Posthumus.