Inspiration
While addressing the general audience or to provide any information to the community, a lot of people use a gender-specific pronoun, like the most used example, hey guys. Using that you are only addressing a subset of the community and leaving out everyone that doesn't identify with that pronoun.
Using gender neutral pro-nouns reduces mental biases that favor men and increases positive attitudes towards women and the LGBT community.
Even though this might not look like a big issue at fist glance, if you pause for a second and actually look, you'll find that this problem exists in almost all communities. Even over the course of this hackathon, many mentors and participants used non gender neutral terms on more than one occasions to communicate.
So we decided to make a Discord bot that would help keep conversations gender neutral.
What it does
When user sends a message, it checks it for gender specific pronouns. If it finds any, it suggests neutral pronouns that would suit the context. User can also use the announce command while making announcements to make sure that everyone feels inclusive.
How we built it
We made this using python relying heavily on Discord's documentation and used some clever text analyzing techniques to suggest replacement texts.
Challenges we ran into
We ran into a bug that we could not solve initially. We later found out that our ide was not compatible witha particular library. The bug vanished as soon as we switched our ide.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
This was our first time as well as first time making a bot. We are proud that we could make something that can be helpful in spreading awareness.
What we learned
We learnt how to make discord bots, navigate through documentation and how to edit videos.
What's next for Gender Neutral bot
We'll add a feature to allow users to add their preferred pronouns.
Built With
- discord
- python
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