Marketing.
“We want to address them by their first name because it’s so much friendlier and personable”.
That’s all I can think of. Not exactly ‘decent’.
“We want to address them by their first name because it’s so much friendlier and personable”.
That’s all I can think of. Not exactly ‘decent’.
Also for formally addressing someone, you need a last name split off of the name in many cultures. Can't write "Very honored mister Schmidt, I regret to inform you that..." if you don't have both the information that this Klaus Schmidt identifies as male and that Klaus must be removed for cultural reasons
Nickname sounds like the real solution. Prefix it with "Dear" and let the user fill in the rest, including any mister/misteress/miss/misses they might want -- or not!