<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>tptacek</author><text>It is completely off-topic.†&lt;p&gt;People will want meat to dig into for a meta-argument about global politics and I&apos;m not going to offer it up, but let it just be said: it&apos;s very bad for HN that this stuff is being covered so prominently on the site. It absolutely, positively a slippery slope.&lt;p&gt;The site is clearly tacking away from serving entrepreneurial hackers and towards serving smart people who want a place to talk about everything they care deeply about.&lt;p&gt;I&apos;m not writing my goodbye note or anything, but I&apos;m having more and more of my best conversations in private cliques and off HN because HN is becoming less and less hospitable to those kinds of conversations.&lt;p&gt;† &lt;i&gt;Need evidence? Graham appears to have manually weighted it off the front page; just a little while ago, a Mubarak story was parked there with 237 votes.&lt;/i&gt;</text><parent_chain><item><author>jeromec</author><text>You&apos;re right that according to the site&apos;s guidelines (&lt;a href=&quot;http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html&lt;/a&gt;) political stories are usually off-topic.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they&apos;re evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;However, there is an exception given for &quot;interesting new phenomenon&quot;. I would say revolutions of a scale not seen in a region for thousands of years would qualify.</text></item><item><author>obiefernandez</author><text>I&apos;m glued to AlJazeera at the moment and have definitely been following the whole story with enthusiastic interest since the beginning.&lt;p&gt;BUT&lt;p&gt;Why are we discussing this topic here again? Seems completely off-topic...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mubarak says that he will not be leaving office</title><url>http://blogs.aljazeera.net/middle-east/2011/02/10/live-blog-feb-10-egypt-protests</url><text></text></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>siavosh</author><text>And also for the fact that social networks have played such a large role.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jeromec</author><text>You&apos;re right that according to the site&apos;s guidelines (&lt;a href=&quot;http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html&lt;/a&gt;) political stories are usually off-topic.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they&apos;re evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;However, there is an exception given for &quot;interesting new phenomenon&quot;. I would say revolutions of a scale not seen in a region for thousands of years would qualify.</text></item><item><author>obiefernandez</author><text>I&apos;m glued to AlJazeera at the moment and have definitely been following the whole story with enthusiastic interest since the beginning.&lt;p&gt;BUT&lt;p&gt;Why are we discussing this topic here again? Seems completely off-topic...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mubarak says that he will not be leaving office</title><url>http://blogs.aljazeera.net/middle-east/2011/02/10/live-blog-feb-10-egypt-protests</url><text></text></story>