I think you and Matt are getting hung up on the example and missing the principle? The Witcher 3 criticism just sprang to mind, but there are plenty of other examples. The point is if political activism has a detrimental effect on a person's gaming experience, they cannot discuss it here on a gaming forum. Imagine your favourite game series being drastically altered or discontinued because political activists deemed it 'problematic'. I don't think it would be too unreasonable on a games forum to express your discontent and concerns regarding that. I would be willing to risk being offended by what you had to say.psj3809 wrote: ↑Tue Sep 24, 2019 4:45 amI can see why they shut all that stuff down, i did enjoy lots of the controversial stuff i must admit but at times the Off topic arguments was bigger than any retro chat here. Nowadays Facebook is more popular for discussions than forums so if i want to argue about Brexit/Labour/Tories/Religion theres plenty of places to argue on Facebook about that rather than a retro games forum.
And yeah lots of those threads just caused huge arguments/reported posts/hassle for the mods etc so you can see why they've acted like that. But plenty of other places to argue about white characters in Witcher if you really are that bored to do that

Sure you could do that on Facebook, and that's the point. You can more freely discuss retro games on facebook, and you can more freely discuss current events on facebook, so many ex-forum members probably asked themselves why come back here at all? Even if you think a retro games forum isn't the appropriatte place to discuss current events of a political or religious nature, even in it's off-topic section, the blanket ban extends into the games section.
And yes, some people want to discuss aspects of gaming others find trivial and boring, fair play to them I say. Threads that aren't popular will die a natural death, telling the initial poster to go to Facebook isn't going to increase the activity on this forum.