<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>SilasX</author><text>Then I don’t understand the outrage. What’s offensive about instructions on how to fill out a ballot &lt;i&gt;above and beyond&lt;/i&gt; the fact of them asking you to vote no?&lt;p&gt;The GGP seemed to think that there was something particularly bad about the detailed six page instructions. But the GP correctly pointed out they do the same thing in regular government elections (to milk as many voters as they can).</text><parent_chain><item><author>rtpg</author><text>It wasn&amp;#x27;t your boss telling you how to do that though. The direct power imbalance is pretty different, I think.</text></item><item><author>duxup</author><text>I got instructions from more than one party this past fall on how to fill out a ballot and mail it early and etc.</text></item><item><author>sodality2</author><text>Detailed, 6 step instructions on how to open a ballot and mark no? Thanks, amazon. This is almost as scummy as asking the city to change traffic lights so union organizers have a harder time talking to workers in between shifts.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.al.com&amp;#x2F;business&amp;#x2F;2021&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;jefferson-county-now-says-traffic-lights-were-changed-near-amazon.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.al.com&amp;#x2F;business&amp;#x2F;2021&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;jefferson-county-now-say...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon Sends ‘Vote No’ Instructions to Unionizing Employees</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en/article/3anw9k/amazon-sends-vote-no-instructions-to-unionizing-employees-tells-them-to-use-new-mailbox</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mc32</author><text>Like some unions tell their members to vote for this or that party?&lt;p&gt;I’m still waiting for the Teachers’ Union to endorse the Libertarian party one day soon -I’m sure it’s gonna happen.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rtpg</author><text>It wasn&amp;#x27;t your boss telling you how to do that though. The direct power imbalance is pretty different, I think.</text></item><item><author>duxup</author><text>I got instructions from more than one party this past fall on how to fill out a ballot and mail it early and etc.</text></item><item><author>sodality2</author><text>Detailed, 6 step instructions on how to open a ballot and mark no? Thanks, amazon. This is almost as scummy as asking the city to change traffic lights so union organizers have a harder time talking to workers in between shifts.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.al.com&amp;#x2F;business&amp;#x2F;2021&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;jefferson-county-now-says-traffic-lights-were-changed-near-amazon.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.al.com&amp;#x2F;business&amp;#x2F;2021&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;jefferson-county-now-say...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon Sends ‘Vote No’ Instructions to Unionizing Employees</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en/article/3anw9k/amazon-sends-vote-no-instructions-to-unionizing-employees-tells-them-to-use-new-mailbox</url></story>