<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>IncreasePosts</author><text>When was flat earth &lt;i&gt;only&lt;/i&gt; a gag?&lt;p&gt;People were adamantly trying to prove a flat earth at least 150 years ago, and even got the co-discoverer of evolution via natural selection(Wallace) roped into the controversy: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Bedford_Level_experiment&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Bedford_Level_experiment&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain><item><author>Loughla</author><text>The problem with this is when the idea gets taken over by people who aren&amp;#x27;t in on the joke. . . Remember how flat earth used to be a gag?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Birds aren&apos;t real – how to create your own &quot;bird&quot;</title><url>https://www.lampysecurity.com/post/birds-aren-t-real-how-to-create-your-own-bird</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>Quarrelsome</author><text>mad people don&amp;#x27;t need reasons to be mad; but rather excuses. If not flat earthism then something else like aliens or smth.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Loughla</author><text>The problem with this is when the idea gets taken over by people who aren&amp;#x27;t in on the joke. . . Remember how flat earth used to be a gag?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Birds aren&apos;t real – how to create your own &quot;bird&quot;</title><url>https://www.lampysecurity.com/post/birds-aren-t-real-how-to-create-your-own-bird</url></story>