Timeline for Is it user-friendly to ask the user their religion upon registration?
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| Oct 8, 2013 at 6:10 | comment | added | Bart Gijssens | Answer is spot on! | |
| Dec 18, 2012 at 22:37 | comment | added | TRiG | (Also, according to Mi Yodeya, Jewish holidays can be slightly different in different parts of the world.) | |
| Sep 29, 2011 at 16:21 | comment | added | tardate | +1 Living in Singapore, we celebrate pretty much everyone's religious holidays, but you never know that if you just asked me my religion! Moreover, making assumptions about people's interests based on their religion is not just bad usability, it's downright offensive. | |
| May 2, 2011 at 1:04 | comment | added | Bevan | +1 For having a checklist that allows users to select multiple sets of holidays, would be useful for members of a minority faith (eg: Jews or Muslims in the UK), and for people with devout friends. | |
| Feb 26, 2011 at 12:50 | comment | added | ChrisF | Can't endorse this answer enough. There's nothing worse than being asked for apparently random information when there's a simple reason behind it that can be asked in much friendlier way. | |
| Feb 26, 2011 at 10:11 | vote | accept | CommunityBot | ||
| Feb 26, 2011 at 9:01 | history | answered | ICR | CC BY-SA 2.5 |