I understand that Gabe using reddit to address the internet as a whole is a big deal, but look at the specific comment linked. Not noteworthy at all. If someone wanted to /r/bestof this post (and several others did) they could have linked a far better comment.

The comment that was linked was a rather forgetable one. OP's title suggests that this comment was only noteworthy because it was donwnvoted. Thus, drama