How to communicate two elements of different general syntactic/semantic type in the same sentence?

Question

I have the following sentence, > NAME is a community that helps each other code better by rating each> other's efforts and helps managers pair with other fellow developersI was suggested by the community that the sentence is stylistically poor because the two elements in the sentence are of different syntactic/semantic type.Hence, I have tried to break up the sentence by producing > NAME is a community that helps its members code better by rating each> other's efforts. It also helps managers pair with other fellow> developersThe issue is that I feel there is something odd there, from a writing perspective. It is intended to be a subheading, so I am trying to keep it concise.

Answer 1

... is a community whose members help each other develop better code by providing feedback through ratings, and whose structure facilitates the pairing of compatible managers and developers.

The issue with your sentence as originally written is that "a community" serves as sort of an anchor in the mind of the reader. Until another noun is used to act as another subject to be targeted by a pronoun, "a community" will be the subject. With that in mind, the issue is that "a community" is not what provides ratings in this case, but rather members within that community provide ratings. Further, "a community" would not likely pair members within itself, but the community existing and being structured in an effective way could ease the pairing of managers with developers. The use of "community" is reinforced by a second use of "whose" after "and", which reminds the reader that the members are not the focus of the sentence, but are instead an aspect of that focus.

The issue of sentences feeling awkward can often be solved by separating a compound sentence into its component parts, as you did originally, but you used a pronoun (it) in the second sentence rather than remind the reader of the community.