There is definitly a clique on this site. I've been around here for a long time, been locked out, banned, sworn at, called names.....you name it, but I still come back. Some days you can post gps locations, others you can't name a lake, it seems to just depend....
I agree with the OP though, I think the two locked threads were shut down for no good reason. Not a nice way to welcome a new member IMO. It could have been handles in a much nicer way.
Life goes on.........
S.