Yes, a bit ironic that the famous TE reviewer that's picked holes in equipment for the last decade is not happy when the heat is turned up on his product.
I could easily have instantly shut down any comment or discussion over the years, but have I ever done so? No, never.
You'd be a hypocrite if you did.
But what I won't tolerate is people, regardless of the contributions they have made, continue to constantly make snide remarks and derail and pollute otherwise useful technical threads. There are several people that constantly do that, and they are continuing to do it again in this thread.
Put yourself in their position Dave, they've invested good coin in one of your products and been disappointed in it for one reason or another of which AFAIK some potentially dangerous issues are still not addressed.
Snide remarks as you put or 'pointers' to flaws of many products and brands abound in this forum with advice of what to apply a 40' barge pole to are frequent yet subtle warnings about your products should be exempt ? 
This facet of the forum is allowed to prosper to the point where members signatures denigrate brands and you turn a blind eye to it like control of it could be conceived as moderation of free speech.
The continuous bashing is par for the course; the snide, gratuitous and sarcasm are par for the course. But so as pushing back or retorting the actors that are propagating this. That will become the norm for years to come. It is how I see this back-and-forth between Dave and his most fervent public detractors.
Regarding bashing, I am pretty sure you can relate to that, tautech, as you also had very heated discussions with more than one member that spent spent real money on a product and keeps (or kept) bashing the brand furiously against the manufacturer's terrible attitudes and design flaws - even as recently as the SDS1104X-E release and its missing capacitors.
Despite I agree with the frustration brought with the high expectations that a meter from Dave would "rule them all", as I mentioned in another thread, the 121GW had an unprecedent open design and major changes (such as the main processor) were made and publicly reported. Throughout this process I was also releasing a product and could relate to how difficult it was to have such public scrutiny during the design phase.
If anything can be learned from these discussions is that the 121GW benefited greatly from this "public shaming".
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