At the risk of entering the fray very late, allow me to make the following statement: Respect all great talmidei chachomim. Whether you can call them “gedolim’ is not important and will always depend upon your allegiance. I agree that the Satmarer rebbe zz’l and Rav Shachz’l were gedolim.mainly because they had many followers. But I also accept Rav Joshe ber Soloveichik z’l as a godol amd I daresay that Rav Kook was one of the greatest ones. Rav Goren z’l knew as much Torah as any other rosh yeshiva in Bnai brak and it is a scandal that he is not respected.
In other words. if people would stop disenfrachising other Gedolim, we could at least be a little bit civil….I am pretty sure ,though,that the above will not be respected, because the one way you can ignore someone’s legitimate argument is by denigrating his greatness and thereby disenfranchising him. Thank Hakodesh Boruch Huh that history has a way of making things right…