Mister_M Nice of you to step up, though it's too bad about the mod response. I wonder if it just wasn't technically possible to re-assign editing rights or if f95 mods have some policy to only do that in certain circumstances. It could be that they interpreted your "request for control" under the policy of allowing game creators to claim control over their own game threads, in which case it wouldn't apply.
Either way, it might be possible to continue the list in other ways, whether through a part 2 or renewal version posted in this thread, or some other collaborative platform like you mentioned.
I remember I said a while back that even if you or LAKueiJin couldn't take control of the OP, you could still at least ask a mod to add a giant link at the top of the thread which says "The updated version of this list can be found
here!" Though it might make sense to only approach the mods again about this once the new list is actually created and has content, since having everything ready for mods to act on would be more persuasive. (If for some reason the mods didn't allow that either, I'm sure that the updated list would be mentioned constantly in the thread, since people frequently say "this game should be added" so it would come up a lot. So anyone who lurked a little would know about it.) Speaking of
LAKueiJin, I noticed he hasn't posted for a couple of weeks.
And like
porotect said, a new thread is definitely an option. I also think it could grow fast. On the other hand, if you decided to create the list on some collaborative platform, and if a mod was willing to add a link in the OP too, making a whole new thread might not offer a lot of advantages.
Btw, 007fanatic posted some great art of his OCs Leila and Kayla the other day and I thought of you.