Noticing a lot of people stating their pronouns in their introductory post, I added a ‘pronouns’ profile field:
However maybe you already see the issue - people are used to giving their password twice on such forms… and five people already did exactly that, putting their password in the ‘pronouns’ field! I’m now in the process of wiping this field for those affected and notifying them of the potential breach…
I’m not sure what interface tweaks would get around this problem. Maybe putting the password field last, or putting a divider around it? I’m going to try renaming the field so it looks less like “Password”…
As you said, I’d rename the field to something less similar than “P[something]” and separate it from the mandatory fields with a bit of css (adding an horizontal line or something like that).
Or maybe make the field a list with predefined choices so people won’t use the field for something else.