ovoon: Honestly, why do people whine so much about these wish threads? It's way better than the wishlist, and we can actually TALK about the game here rather than just throw one vote into a basket a millions of votes in other games.
hedwards: Because they clutter up the forum over something with a more
appropriate location and have precisely no more impact on future games than the wishlist does.
Plus, most of the folks that post them are posting them because they don't know about the wishlist and it's not just one long topic on games that we want, like some of the other topics, it's myriad small topics which come and go regularly.
Appropriate location? You mean the circular file? Threads like these are far more interesting and relevant to this site than, say, "Show off your ink" posts.
Threads like these help to highlight forgotten games and stir up interest far more than a simple vote click ever can.