# Custom user fields dropdown have no "please choose" option
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-user-fields-dropdown-have-no-please-choose-option/40554
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [3월 4, 2016, 7:10오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-user-fields-dropdown-have-no-please-choose-option/40554 "2016-03-04T07:10:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@michaeld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/michaeld)
#### Post date: [3월 4, 2016, 7:10오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-user-fields-dropdown-have-no-please-choose-option/40554/1 "2016-03-04T07:10:19Z")
Might be classified as a bug, might be classified as a feature, I don’t know. I have chosen to classify it as a bug because the system doesn’t behave as expected 🙂
If you add a custom user field dropdown and make it required upon signup, people are able to just leave the field at the first option, and continue (so 50% of the users seem to be from Afghanistan for example)
So in effect, they’re not actually required.
It would be better if people were forced to actually choose a value from the dropdown. I think this can be accomplished the best by inserting a “-- please choose --” entry at the top.
---
### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [3월 4, 2016, 7:11오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-user-fields-dropdown-have-no-please-choose-option/40554/2 "2016-03-04T07:11:59Z")
Sure seems like a good idea to me, at the very least have blank (no choice) be the default cc @eviltrout
---
### Author:  [@eviltrout](https://meta.discourse.org/u/eviltrout)
#### Post date: [3월 9, 2016, 8:30오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-user-fields-dropdown-have-no-please-choose-option/40554/3 "2016-03-09T20:30:50Z")
I accepted a PR that fixes this:
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/4060](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/4060)
---
### Author:  [@eviltrout](https://meta.discourse.org/u/eviltrout)
#### Post date: [3월 9, 2016, 8:30오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-user-fields-dropdown-have-no-please-choose-option/40554/4 "2016-03-09T20:30:56Z")