William. I don't think it is reading comprehension but rather that you are so blinded by hate you perceive what you wish to believe.
How can this be any more clear? I tried to help with colors

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at least in the fall of 2017, the vast majority of threads are gun, shooting or hunting related and with little toxicity. And I've yet to find one locked."
You responded with a thread from 2008??
BTW I have NEVER contacted Dave about you, and the ONE time I did contact Dave it was when jOe claimed on the forum I had sent him an email...that had come from another forum member. For which, to jOe's credit, he did apologize.
Take a break William. Be freed from the paranoia. Find peace and healing.
Nice job of twisting Preacher Pinnochio. When you made the statement about the 2017 Thread and said,
"And I've yet to find one locked. Until this:", it was immediately followed up with a link to a page in a 2017 Thread that was locked. And lo and behold, when I clicked on the link you provided, it went right to a Thread that was locked, and directly to page where the Post at the top was made by me. I'm sure that was just a coincidence, and had nothing to do with the current campaign you and your pals are running.
My point was that prior to 2017, there were lots of threads locked. And the number and frequency seemed to increase quite a bit after someone complained or questioned why a particular Thread was locked. Dave chimed in to say he typically only locks or deletes a Thread after he gets a rash of complaints... because it is too tedious and time consuming to go in and read every Post and just delete what the thin-skinned crybaby complainers found offensive. Your friends learned that Dave didn't read every Thread or Post, so all they had to do was SPAM him with a slew of complaints and crying, and they could get any Thread they disliked shut down. Of course, that explains why Princess SKB, Last Dollar, King, and others disrupted just about every 2nd Amendment or Gun Rights topic, and pissed Dave off to the point that he unpinned the "2nd Amendment-Informational" Thread he had pinned to the top of the Main DoubleGun forum page. Princess SKB was probably the biggest offender. JamesM didn't decide to leave just because the Princess was calling him Monkey Jim. He Posted a lot of 2nd Amendment Threads, and became increasingly frustrated about Princess SKB and other Libtards trashing them.
It's all about you Libtards controlling content and your never ending quest for censorship.
You also say you only contacted Dave ONE time, and it was to whine about jOe. Did you really need to cry to Dave that jOe said you had sent him an email? Did Dave at least offer you a tissue to wipe your tears? However, I clearly recall another time you admitted to contacting Dave. You were crying about a Post that Dave himself made...
Dave had made one of his fairly rare visits to comment on what was transpiring in a Misfires Thread, and referred to the participants as "kids". Since you were a participant, and were thin-skinned about being referred to as one of the "kids", you cried about it and later told us that you had told Dave that you didn't appreciate it too.
Or were you just lying again? Bearing false witness again? Repent Preacher... find some peace and healing. Dow Chemical doesn't have enough sodium hydroxide to neutralize the acid eating your soul.