This is the message I got from the video:
How good or bad is the chip compared to others is completely irrelevant. The point is that if you look into things superficially, you may get unexpected results in certain circumstances. Be it even the best chip in the whole universe.
Never did I consider it an attack on the main chip mentioned and of course the significance of the "issues" being warned about are going to vary with the situation. Getting all fired up and charging to the defence of this chip is just so over the top, it bewilders me - but it is not anything new on the internet.
FYI, the term "Bugger off" does not have an absolute, single meaning. It has "shades" of intensity that range from the extreme you seem to have taken on, down to something like "are you kidding?". One of the intermediate levels would read something like: "I don't agree with you are saying at all".
Dave obviously realised this could have been misinterpreted and corrected that - but there it was. Somebody's pride had been hurt on the internet, so justification and retaliation come to the fore.
The end result is that the complainant has simply highlighted their embarrassment ... and is likely going to escalate matters in an attempt to save face. In truth, the opposite is going to happen.
Bloguetrónica - if you ever found a point where you worked out that Dave was simply pointing out a detail (refer to my first citation, above) and not really attacking the chip in question, you would have avoided ALL of this angst by simply saying something that acknowledged the fact - even if you wanted to suffix such a statement with your own support.
Wanting to delete your account is somewhat of a knee-jerk reaction and making a display of such a request indicates you are driven by "saving face" rather than objectivity - which is unfortunate. You have taken something that did not deserve to be a storm in a teacup and have turned it into a tornado in a test tube.
As you are someone who has made some useful contributions to the forum, I would hate to see you go - but if you cannot ease back from this stance, then it might be wise to do so. I would encourage you to take a break from active participation for a period - perhaps several days or so - and see if you can re-engage.
If you could admit your reactions mentioned here were a bit intense, then that would go a long way for people to let the past stay in the past. Many of us can get hard-nosed about a topic every now and then and temperatures rise, but when we acknowledge those moments and settle down, things go back to normal pretty quickly.
Dave isn't the perfect presenter - and I'm sure he would be one of the first to agree - but he does cover some extremely useful and interesting topics. He also covers some that don't really interest me - but that's fine. He's not there for my personal entertainment.
I do hope you find your way back to participation here.