I do have a question regarding the new rules on posting games that are not your own. While I can understand those threads are a bit more difficult due to the thread “owners” not being involved with the game, the only cases I’ve seen on this site so far have been from users spreading the word about a game when the developer doesn’t have an account here. Quite often these are developers who don’t speak English and would therefor never discover this site, and the users who then make those threads are only giving those games a wider audience that would otherwise have never heard of them.
Outside of an exceedingly rare edge case where a developer specifically requests to take the thread down, I don’t see any issue with that. Even then, so long as it is made clear that these are users simply wanting to spread the word about a game they like and not Official WeightGamingTM Endorsement or whatever I really can’t see any game developer that wouldn’t want their game advertised to a like-minded audience for free. This is just a slightly more public version of people sending game links in large Discord servers.
I myself have posted two threads about other games, and there are plenty of others with the unclaimed tag, would all of these then be moved over to the wiki and/or General Games? My issue with that solution is visibility is far lower then in Projects, which is the entire purpose of making these threads in the first place.
So to circle back around, was there anything specific that prompted this change? If the concern was about making sure users know if they’re speaking to the developer or not, then (not to blow my own horn) I believe something similar to how I made my threads would be sufficient: clear credit in the title and a disclaimer in the opening sentence along the lines of “I did not make this game.”
I don’t know how the tagging system works behind the scenes, but if possible you could also prompt users to add the unclaimed tag for this situation, or make it a required claimed/unclaimed addition like you’re doing with the other new tags.