<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>kzh_</author><text>OP here, I posted this a few days ago and was surprised to see it on the front page this morning. Not sure why it says I submitted 4 hours ago when I wasn’t awake, maybe the second-chance pool (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=26998308&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=26998308&lt;/a&gt;)?&lt;p&gt;But I’m also generally skeptical of high upvote&amp;#x2F;comment ratios, because as a long-time HNer too I also want to read things that are genuinely interesting. In this case, I can promise you neither I nor anyone on the team is soliciting upvotes for this post.&lt;p&gt;On that note, if anyone has any comments about the content itself, happy to discuss further.</text><parent_chain><item><author>xcambar</author><text>Off topic: there seems to be a growing trend at HN of posts reaching the homepage with a reasonable number of upvotes yet without comments.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t know how to proceed with these posts (and this one), yet the temptation of mentally  flagging these as friendly upvotes or point hoarders is strong, and I must admit that such posts receive less attention and more suspicion from me.&lt;p&gt;YMMV.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The four pillars of data observability: metrics, metadata, lineage, and logs</title><url>https://www.metaplane.dev/blog/the-four-pillars-of-data-observability</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>metadat</author><text>Edit: I went and read TFA, and must say there were some red flags.  CS people who add &amp;quot;PhD&amp;quot; beside their name are not only pretentious, but are trying to throw their academic weight around instead of letting their ideas and presentation stand on its own.  Filled with more marketing fluff than useful information.  Ugh.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m siding with you on this.  I&amp;#x27;ve &amp;quot;undowned&amp;quot; you and upvoted instead; Sorry xcamber!&lt;p&gt;--&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#x27;re really concerned, email dang (hn@ycombinator.com) and ask him to look into it.  As a sidenote, if you actually flag out of suspicion of a voting ring or other feelings without real evidence, it is abusing the power you&amp;#x27;ve been entrusted with.  Threads like this one are also way off topic, seems more considerate to submit an &amp;quot;Ask HN&amp;quot; post rather than hijack the story discussion.&lt;p&gt;The group dynamics are often surprising on HN.</text><parent_chain><item><author>xcambar</author><text>Off topic: there seems to be a growing trend at HN of posts reaching the homepage with a reasonable number of upvotes yet without comments.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t know how to proceed with these posts (and this one), yet the temptation of mentally  flagging these as friendly upvotes or point hoarders is strong, and I must admit that such posts receive less attention and more suspicion from me.&lt;p&gt;YMMV.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The four pillars of data observability: metrics, metadata, lineage, and logs</title><url>https://www.metaplane.dev/blog/the-four-pillars-of-data-observability</url></story>