Any kind of automated system is going to be inaccurate. IP addresses aren't great at detecting location and you'd need to constantly be updating your ip to location database to keep it roughly accurate. There's the geolocation JavaScript API which has a lot more accuracy (especially for mobile users) but I don't think people want to be giving their exact location when they're logging into MFGG. Also it gets a lot less accurate when dealing with other kinds of devices (not to mention it can be forged too lol).
I'm not really sure we're too accurate on the country flags themselves anyway. I know we're not using official country names and I'm sure at least some of the countries we have probably have either changed flags or names or maybe even don't exist or do exist and are absent since they were originally created. Countries are just a political designation anyway; they're about as real as time or Mario.
Another note: you can already set your location to "gay" or anything else:
(which isn't any different at all from how big sites like Twitter ask for your Location). The flag field is just labeled "your country", which doesn't really mean much.
It's already a de-facto "flag" field, might as well let people fly whichever MFGG-approved flag they want. idc much if things like the anarchist black flag are added or whatever either. I also wouldn't be opposed to it just being a custom image of the same dimensions, but I'm sure we'd lose a bit of visual consistency there.
idk I think it's more "dumb" to put your head in the sand and ignore how features are being used than be so prescriptivist about it
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- John F. Kennedy"
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I'm not really sure we're too accurate on the country flags themselves anyway. I know we're not using official country names and I'm sure at least some of the countries we have probably have either changed flags or names or maybe even don't exist or do exist and are absent since they were originally created. Countries are just a political designation anyway; they're about as real as time or Mario.
Another note: you can already set your location to "gay" or anything else:
(which isn't any different at all from how big sites like Twitter ask for your Location). The flag field is just labeled "your country", which doesn't really mean much.
It's already a de-facto "flag" field, might as well let people fly whichever MFGG-approved flag they want. idc much if things like the anarchist black flag are added or whatever either. I also wouldn't be opposed to it just being a custom image of the same dimensions, but I'm sure we'd lose a bit of visual consistency there.
idk I think it's more "dumb" to put your head in the sand and ignore how features are being used than be so prescriptivist about it
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""We choose to go to the [Suggestions board] not because it's easy, but because it's hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win."
- John F. Kennedy"
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