Comment by Arubis
4 days ago
Quickly followed by folks talking about a warm and welcoming community. Which in fairness, is true! DHH is the counterexample. Platforming him in 2025 seems nonsensical.
4 days ago
Quickly followed by folks talking about a warm and welcoming community. Which in fairness, is true! DHH is the counterexample. Platforming him in 2025 seems nonsensical.
Why is platforming him in 2025 nonsensical?
Because he said things that some people on the internet interpreted as mean, so therefore he’s mean and we should never associate with mean people.
Ah yes, the "fuck your feelings" reductive response.
But no, what I meant to get at is that DHH's ego is radioactive. RailsConf tried to open their keynote to having Maybe Perhaps Someone Else Talk Sometime and DHH's response was, as it were, [off the rails](https://world.hey.com/dhh/no-railsconf-faa7935e). RailsWorld started the next year and, happy to have DHH keynote, took off. RailsConf swiftly died.
If you're running an ecosystem with a vocal community, is that a fire you want to play with?
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platforming him at all is nonsensical if you want to claim to have a kind and/or welcoming community
So your claim is, that he is not a kind person. Were his blog posts that inflammatory?
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