It's pronounced Diane. I do data architecture, operations, and backend development. In my spare time I maintain Massive.js, a data mapper for Node.js and PostgreSQL.
People were ambivalent about the feature then too, and I think this is bearing out the perspectives of commenters like Ryan, Tobias, and Stian. Fundamentally it's difficult to see how the same rubric can be applied fairly to individual authors and to sponsors with business and financial interests.
If I were to start hiding comments on my articles, nothing much would be different outside my interactions with those commenters and readers; my interests are not (necessarily) DEV's interests and vice versa. That isn't true for sponsors: there's a business relationship between DEV and its sponsors, and so DEV itself is entangled in the actions sponsors take on the platform.
When a sponsor hides comments to quell reminders of their less-than-savory business dealings, that also sets expectations for sponsor activity. It establishes a precedent that aligns DEV-the-company more closely in certain respects with its sponsors than with the community. And I think it showcases at least one limit to the one-size-fits-all approach. Rules and laws eventually get complicated for good reason.
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People were ambivalent about the feature then too, and I think this is bearing out the perspectives of commenters like Ryan, Tobias, and Stian. Fundamentally it's difficult to see how the same rubric can be applied fairly to individual authors and to sponsors with business and financial interests.
If I were to start hiding comments on my articles, nothing much would be different outside my interactions with those commenters and readers; my interests are not (necessarily) DEV's interests and vice versa. That isn't true for sponsors: there's a business relationship between DEV and its sponsors, and so DEV itself is entangled in the actions sponsors take on the platform.
When a sponsor hides comments to quell reminders of their less-than-savory business dealings, that also sets expectations for sponsor activity. It establishes a precedent that aligns DEV-the-company more closely in certain respects with its sponsors than with the community. And I think it showcases at least one limit to the one-size-fits-all approach. Rules and laws eventually get complicated for good reason.