If you've been here long enough, if something negative is pointed out about Tesla, their vehicles or their reliability, some of them will jump in, try to explain away things, make excuses, make (often) not very good comparisons (e.g. comparing to brands that don't have very good reliability to begin with), slam or attempt to discredit the source, slam competitors or ones that are better in that aspect, bash the messenger, etc. Sometimes, they'll accuse you of being a short seller (of TSLA stock) or troll or worse. More recently, there's now the disagree button and they'll often click that, as well.
In some cases, there some folks have experienced clear safety defects (e.g. sudden loss of propulsion while in motion not due to user error) and when it's suggested that it be reported to NHTSA via Home | Safercar -- National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), some of those fanboys will try to discourage the victim from reporting and attack/belittle the person who brings it up, besides trying to make excuses that "it's random", shouldn't be reported, coming up with their own criteria to report or not, etc.
I've been on the receiving end of some of that here and it's frankly annoying. In some cases, even responding w/plenty of clear supporting evidence isn't enough. The behavior I mentioned continues.
Also, I've observed some fanboys have a very narrow point of view, sometimes disconnected from the real world. Some eventually come around, when given enough evidence. Examples relate to Tesla autopilot and their autonomous driving progress or what they observe in their region/country/car market vs. rest of their country/world or being WAY too focused on EVs vs. the rest of the auto market.
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