[michaelochurch]

I've seen enough of these threads on Hacker News to know the answer is clearly "it's different because I don't like him."

Zed wounded a lot of egos back in the day, so calls for positivity that may otherwise work on HN are going to fail. By framing him as a "controversial figure" they attempt to create a route to hate on him that doesn't count as shit talking.

I don't know of anyone else in tech who's had that experience, ha.