CF, I don't know what happened to your threads, but I assume that someone did not want to start a new round of arguing about Skippy. I may be wrong, I'm just guessing that's what happened.
When one of our members leaves, we do have a tendency to spend huge amounts of time discussing it. We should discuss it, but not to the point where we forget about the bigger picture.
CF, you are a great member of this forum, and you how much I respect and admire you.
It's possible that one of our admins did not want us to continue to be diverted by all of this personal stuff. I'm sure they had good intentions.