{"id":17709,"date":"2018-12-28T06:11:10","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T14:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/?p=17709"},"modified":"2018-12-28T06:15:09","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T14:15:09","slug":"another-oddly-specific-but-incomplete-dropdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2018\/12\/28\/another-oddly-specific-but-incomplete-dropdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Another oddly specific but incomplete dropdown"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Latest in the annals of nonprofits making odd UI choices in their donation forms:<\/p>\r\n<p>The nonprofit I\u2019m about to donate to has a name-suffix field. I got curious and looked at it. Here are the values provided in the dropdown menu:<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n  <li>Jr.<\/li>\r\n  <li>Sr.<\/li>\r\n  <li>II<\/li>\r\n  <li>III<\/li>\r\n  <li>IV<\/li>\r\n  <li>V<\/li>\r\n  <li>VI<\/li>\r\n  <li>VII<\/li>\r\n  <li>CPA<\/li>\r\n  <li>DDS<\/li>\r\n  <li>ED.D<\/li>\r\n  <li>Esq.<\/li>\r\n  <li>J.D.<\/li>\r\n  <li>J.D. Ph.D.<\/li>\r\n  <li>Jr. Esq.<\/li>\r\n  <li>LBSW<\/li>\r\n  <li>M.D.<\/li>\r\n  <li>MD<\/li>\r\n  <li>MS<\/li>\r\n  <li>MSW<\/li>\r\n  <li>P.C.<\/li>\r\n  <li>Ph.D.<\/li>\r\n  <li>Trust<\/li>\r\n  <li>(Ret)<\/li>\r\n  <li>MLS<\/li>\r\n  <li>Ratner<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>As usual with this sort of thing (see also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2005\/12\/24\/limperatrice-cest-moi\/\">L\u2019Imperatrice, c\u2019est moi<\/a>), I feel like they tried their hardest to be weirdly specific (it lists both \u201cM.D.\u201d and \u201cMD\u201d!), while missing vast swathes of options (DDS but no OD; VII but no VIII; MS but no MA; MD but no NP; etc).<\/p>\r\n<p>But even so, I wouldn\u2019t have posted about this list if it hadn\u2019t been for that mysterious final entry:<\/p>\r\n<p>Ratner<\/p>\r\n<p>I had never encountered the name suffix \u201cRatner\u201d before, and TSOR didn\u2019t help. Eventually I noticed that earlier in the page, they had requested donations to their \u201cMichael Ratner Campaign for the Next Generation.\u201d So I\u2019m guessing that either an internal database notation got inadvertently added to the publicly visible form, or they want people who are donating to the Michael Ratner fund to add \u201cRatner\u201c to their names as a suffix.<\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-names"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17709"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17713,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17709\/revisions\/17713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}