Comment by shafyy
4 days ago
I don't know why you are being downvoted. This is a real issue and a legitimate concern to have as a user of this software. I feel the same way (never used Zed in the first place because they are VC backed, but this would have been the final straw for me, too).
Because Paul consistently violates HN guidelines:
> Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
How is VC funding not political?
This flagging is pretty obviously the actual violation of the guideline.
It's not possible in today's world and not be political. People who say they are apolitical are also political. Silence is also communication.
Pointing out that Zed has taken money from a company that openly supports one of the biggest genocides in recent history is not a "political battle".
Because dragging politics into things is fucking obnoxious. It's off-topic, it gets people riled up so they are arguing about politics instead of having substantive discussion, and it degrades the community by threatening to destroy the focus on tech in favor of political slap fights. In short, going out of your way to bring up politics is being a jerk, and people don't appreciate that.
Hard to take their Code of Conduct seriously anymore https://zed.dev/code-of-conduct
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A sibling comment claims that making a comment like this constitutes waging a 'political'/'ideological' battle that 'tramples curiosity', because raising a legitimate concern is inherently ideological, but silencing any and all scrutiny of a VC is not.
Yeah, pretty ridiculous... maybe we can move off of hackernews too.