Yeah it does seem a little harsh to me as well, this site is getting quite oppressive these days.
I realise that now its a purely commerical venture rather than an enthusiast owned site that things have to be tightened up on and that they cant allow people to properly abuse each other, but a bit of incredibally tame very well natured banter like in that post I would have thought would be good for business as its having a bit of a laugh and a bit of a banter that made this site so popular as much as the good technical advice on here did IMHO, so to completely squash it out totally does indeed seem over the top.