I'd love to see some reasons why people downvoted my completely-ontopic comment about the heavy network usage of that Reddit link with a useful suggestion for a

I'd love to see some reasons why people downvoted my completely-ontopic comment about the heavy network usage of that Reddit link with a useful suggestion for a lower-usage alternative. If you felt my attempt to promote an energy-conscious approach on a discussion about that very subject was somehow not valuable, a text response would be more useful than suppressing my message.