Should I avoid editing the forms including "@", "x" and "-e" when/if seen in posts?

Question

I just provided an answer to How should we address people in Spanish in a gender-neutral way on our site? in which I linked Are there any non-binary pronouns or neopronouns in Spanish?. Both questions (Meta and Main) are directly related to the new CoC and its FAQ, although I think this is something we eventually would have needed to address at some point in our language-learning site.

When I was thinking my answer and researching options, I studied cdlvcdlv's contribution about La x, la @, la -e. Ukemi has one about the neopronoun elle/élle.

I think that a year ago I wouldn't have had a second hesitation to change an "Alumn@s" for "Alumnos" or "Alumnas", depending on the context. Even a month ago I would had changed it, and with other forms like "Alumnxs", "alumn*s" or "Alumnes", depending on the need and context, I would had cited the RAE's stance about the so called inclusive language.

Thus said, if we are going to discuss how should we address people in Spanish in a gender-neutral way on our site to abide by the new CoC and users are going to start proposing or using "l@s trabajador@s", "lxs trabajadorxs" or "l*s trabajador*s" so their articles, nouns and adjetives can agree on gender neutral neopronouns, we might want or need to clarify the community's position about them.

Do the recent CoC changes mean that those forms are considered valid and I should not edit them?

Is it against the CoC to change "l@s trabajador@s", "lxs trabajadorxs" or "l*s trabajador*s" into "los trabajadores" or "las trabajadoras" depending on the context?

Same with the "-e" form as in "niñe", "todes", etc. Since the pronoun "elle/élle" will necessitate its use, as in:

Elle es mi amigue, se identifica como no binarie.

Answer 1

I am a reluctant editor so my view may be rather extreme but I would only edit if

(a) there is clearly a typo,

(b) to add new information from a comment,

(c) to add or delete a tag.

Many of my edits are to my own posts, I must be a careless poster. In the cases of the novel ways of writing in a gender neutral way the poster clearly intended to write what they wrote so I would leave it. Charlie has pointed out issues with screen readers so I suppose one might post a comment asking if the OP would consider using one of the other forms rather than @ but I would not edit it if they turned down the opportunity.

Answer 2

In my opinion, the @ and x options are not academic nor standard and they pose a serious problem with the reading software for blind people. This was a question raised from the first days of the use of those options. Just imagine you can't see anything and your computer starts reading:

ele arroba ese trabajador arroba ese

Or:

ele equis ese trabajador equis ese

Could you understand what the software is reading? We cannot try to include a group of people by excluding another one. So my choice, if you want to stick to neologisms, would be changing the @'s and x's for e's, as

les trabajadores

sounds weird but any person can understand that. However, we have the more politically correct form:

los trabajadores y las trabajadoras

And the more academically correct form:

los trabajadores (using the masculine form as gender neutral)

Both forms would also be OK, but I think changing "l@s trabajador@s" for "los trabajadores y las trabajadoras" would change the intention of the original post, that's why I would change one neologism for another and change it to "les trabajadores". It keeps the intention of using a neologism and it's friendly with the reading software for blind people.