Rather tpyically, the only ppl making a big deal about it, are the ones that generally disagree with the OP.

She wasn't asking for the world. .-. More or less it was just to try and encourage ppl that if it's a male character, use he/him, if it's a female character, use she/her. ;o And if anyone takes a moment to correct you, then no problem.

Your first point of contact with a person is their avatar, and this is a Role Playing Game with gendered races. I understand the points being made about the higher probability of the person being male but I'm afraid this isn't a good enough reason. Ppl are saying that it's a higher probability of them being male, but then go on to say that it's bad to use the gender of the character as you don't know anything about the person in rl? Hmm. Yes, none of us know anything about each other when we first meet someone in game, so it seems to me the most appropriate thing to do is to refer to them by their character's gender. Is this starting to make sense yet?

Even if no one wishes to change, that's fine, but I hope at least you can show that you understand this way of looking at it.