I believe the OP is one of the people who left over the removal of a certain, controversial off topic board.
I doubt that had anything to do with it. Dave was becoming less active here during 2012, and as far as I remember, he was either never or hardly ever in the Karaoke Bar. Most of the time, people who no longer post have just moved on and it has nothing to do with anything here at Bnut.
Too bad...It would have been great to see now than...