Well, the topic did get a bit out of hand, with people arguing essentially that the topic is bad, which led to it being derailed.

I did at least get a few interesting recommendations, like Even the Ocean (which I remember seeing a marathon speedrun of) and Anodyne 2. (Should I play the first one first? Note that I have access to Anodyne thanks to that one huge itch.io, but the sequel isn't in that bundle.)

(The point of this topic, on the other hand, is that if an active topic is bad or has gone bad, then locking is more appropriate than deletion, since locking doesn't trigger the same forum bug that deletion doesn't. Then again, the topic does have some content that's worth preserving, like the game recommendations (including the one I rejected).)

It was clearly intended as a political forum and banned rightfully.

If I were a mod I would've told everyone to get back on track, and maybe modded any posts that needed modding...not locked it....so the thread could continue.

(that said, it seems they listened to your request in a way, by not outright deleting it)

The thread was pretty not off-track, but train crashed and bodies flung everywhere. The problem is, it should not have gotten to that point. Moderation isn't simply sitting back and watching everything burn then popping up to scoop the ashes.

As for the necro, I mean 21st December...not really a Necro.

Additionally, copy and pasting a blanket reply of 'it's a duplicaite' does little, if anything it just comes off as trying to throw a plaster on it.

The very fact people are discussing these things in this thread is a good sign towards many of the problems with how the forums are (well, lack of) moderated.

But, this tends to happen when there's a very clear disconnect between the users and those in community management roles. Always room to fix that though.

Unfortunately this doesnt help the victims of earlier deletions. If they are actually reading this how about undeleting the bug-causing threads?

Not sure how to interpret your 'at least ' but it sounds like you arent quite happy - according to the locking comment you can just make a new thread if you want more. And they promised they will keep it "clean"(*) too.
(And the "Our forum is not a good place to discuss such complex topic." part is an example of them not wanting intelligent discussion on their forum.)

(*) I am also curious if the promise refers to only 'queer' game recommendation threads or all game recommendation threads.

Sadly I don't think that's possible.

My guess is that that some on staff might not like threads that criticize pc culture....as another thread doing the same got the same locking message, and it was pretty civil.

(either that, or they didn't list the real reason for one or another)

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Sidenote to all:

I was told to use this thread for talk about this topic, as the staff essentially "merged" my thread with this one when they deleted it, so if I have anything else to post on the subject I will post it here. Sorry for any inconvenience, OP.

In any case, I have noticed a double standard from the userbase here.

* Someone creates a topic asking for Christian-friendly games, and the posters in the topic are respectful of the topic creator's request. (Note that I did not post in that topic.)
* I post a topic asking for queer games, and people post in the topic criticizing the whole idea of the topic (instead of giving suggestions or just ignoring the topic), which then results in the topic getting out of hand and being locked.

Isn't there a double standard here?

Didn't read either thread yet, but: I think it's due(in part) to how much such topics are pushed in media(like games and film) as of late....this likely is causing some to react in a certain way to such topics.

Also some might've seen your requirements to be a little too "complex" and hard to fulfill.
(like a person asking for good RPGs vs another asking for good rpgs with women named susan who like dogs but not cats)

Still others might've responded based on their prior interactions with you.

(btw not saying such behavior is good or bad....just saying what are the possible likely causes, imo)

That's not quite true, the topic of that thread was questioned and criticized as well. IIRC it didn't go down the drain as much as yours, but a lot of the posts were attempts to discuss the validity of the OP's request, too, instead of giving recommendations.

Their thread was vague while yours was more specific on a hot topic used by opportunists at the moment.

If the same question was asked during the time period when games were being censored by jack thompson and similar people then the other thread would have got more complaints.