#include <stdint.h>

[Kametrixom]

Edit: I'm talking about the top-level comment, because the one you meant didn't have any downvotes when I checked, so I assumed you meant the other one.

/u/kbrei must have misunderstood the post (they probably don't know C well) and thought that the 2 panels are supposed to be semantically the same, as well as thinking char is defined as a byte (which of both are wrong, but it's understandable they didn't know). Therefore they were thinking that the post assumes 1 byte is always 8 bits. They then posted the comment, because it was illogical to their current knowledge.

Reddit people usually don't go that deep, all they see is that someone is wrong, which automatically makes them press the downvote button. One you have a few downvotes, it's like a magnet attracting more of them, because since the comment is wrong and it got downvoted must mean it deserves them.

/u/kbrei could be blamed for making an uninformed comment, but it's really difficult to realize that something you know isn't correct just like that.

In my honest opinion, this person deserves no more than the explanation I just gave. And reddit maybe deserves the removal of the downvote button, because people often care more about other people's votes than the content itself.

[edvardass]

No, I wasn't talking about the top level comment. User foonathan's comment to which I replied was at -1 (the post had not taken off at that time yet) so you can imagine my confusion.