As of ES 1.2.5 once a user selects a gender, there is no way for them to remove a selection. While for myself this is no big deal at all, it can be a big deal for others. Here are two major scenarios:
1. Unfortunately there are some very bad people out there. So for some people when they run into crazy stalkers they have to keep the gender factor under cover. It's not as simple as deleting the bad guys. I've personally seen a psycho path come on over and over again for hours sending thousands of terrible messages (me and a staff of others had to keep deleting him and banning IP's). I'll spare you the details, but basically a user in my opinion needs to be able to unselect their gender when these cases arise.
2. User decides they want as little about them put out in the public. Maybe at first they were fine with their gender being up, but then realize they want to be private in that regard.
Possible Solution: I recommend having another radio button called "Unspecified" which would behave as a NULL value and act as though no option was selected. If we wanted to make it look simpler, the "Unspecified" option could appear after an option is already chosen (plus being saved/submitted).
1. Unfortunately there are some very bad people out there. So for some people when they run into crazy stalkers they have to keep the gender factor under cover. It's not as simple as deleting the bad guys. I've personally seen a psycho path come on over and over again for hours sending thousands of terrible messages (me and a staff of others had to keep deleting him and banning IP's). I'll spare you the details, but basically a user in my opinion needs to be able to unselect their gender when these cases arise.
2. User decides they want as little about them put out in the public. Maybe at first they were fine with their gender being up, but then realize they want to be private in that regard.
Possible Solution: I recommend having another radio button called "Unspecified" which would behave as a NULL value and act as though no option was selected. If we wanted to make it look simpler, the "Unspecified" option could appear after an option is already chosen (plus being saved/submitted).