I can believe that. And I honestly don't even have a problem with pruning nasty comments in a sub like that. I would expect a Reddit sub on 3D printing to not be nearly as spicy as some place like here.

What irked me was the mod's reason for locking the thread said:

Nearly all of the comments are simply hate

Which is complete BS. People saying "my prototype appeared on Alibaba within a day of me sending it to my Chinese manufacturer" isn't hate. It's accurately reporting behavior from a country that doesn't honor intellectual property in any way shape or form.