Well you are right.  I don't like the genre.  Of course, I have my reasons for not liking it.

Critical thinking... interesting.

bestiality /bĕs″chē-ăl′ĭ-tē, bēs″-/

noun

1. The quality or condition of being an animal or like an animal.
2. Conduct or an action marked by depravity or brutality.
3. Sexual relations between a human and an animal.

By definition, what you are attempting to describe as "Furry" is actually bestiality.  You can thrash against that truth as long as you like to.  It doesn't change The Fact that it is an ill fitted tag and IMO, should not be the overwhelming search outcome when someone searches for "Gay" games.

My argument is "Gay" is not "Furry".  Itch, as a website would do better by attempting to direct us to games with the content we are actually looking for and should "police" the website for creators that over uses tags to come up in every fucking search conducted.  That is why we are limited everywhere else in life from adding every tag we can think of just to get more hits on our games, videos, posts, podcasts, etc. etc.

Itch has a Furry category, if I want to find a Furry game, that is where I search.  If I want that Furry game to be Furry, and also be Gay themed or have a Gay theme included,(because not all Furries are Gay, and not all Gay people are Furries)   THEN I add to the search the "Gay" tag.

1. -Furry-

2. -Gay-

My friend, that is how a "good" search engine works.  Please assert you authority on search engines elsewhere.

Lets check that authority on search engines and make a search of "Blonde Women or Blonde Men".  You are right, it won't ALL be blonde women/men, but it won't come up Overwhelmingly with brunettes, and it certainly won't come up overwhelmingly with anthropomorphic cartoon animals.  I am sorry that "cartoon" must offend you.  Should I use digitally rendered, to look hand drawn, which most people might find reminiscent of cartoons?

This is at least the 3rd time I have attempted to contact Itch on this.  This is the first time anyone has ever responded, and you are right, I am mad.  I am exasperated, and I have long ago taken my business elsewhere.  It is my fault that I keep making the mistake of checking back to see if Itch fixed this issue, and trust me, just because its outcome is of your preference, please use your "critical thinking",  and you will see it is an issue.

Knowing the phrase "critical thinking" doesn't mean that you are actually using it yourself, and that I am not.

I am willing to bet that the overwhelming percentage, and perhaps not a single game in your "Furry" category is actually about human beings, gay or not, who are dressed in animal clothing and interacting with each other.  AND, it shouldn't be the overwhelming outcome to the simple search term "Gay", no matter how "popular" you think it is, or how much you personally love it.  I feel you have blinded yourself to your own preferences.

Lastly, Don't say I didn't warn you when some parent comes into their kids room and finds this type of content and freaks out.  They will claim that it is directed at minors, and you won't be able to disprove it.  Their simple minded attack will be all that they will need to convince "officials" or "authorities" to come down hard on everyone.  That is when EVERY game creator, and game fans will suffer and Itch will be attacked by say, Patreon, and/or PayPal, and other forces of Fascism.  SubscribeStar has remained the better, more open-minded choice, but that is only a matter of time before it succumbs to pressure too.

Here is a real world example.  Craigslist shutdown its personals section because there was a tiny fraction of instances where people had used it to abuse people or sex traffic.  CL folded under the pressure and shut it down completely.

Craigslist did not shut down selling personal goods to others, even though the ripoff percentage is/was far greater percentage comparatively.  These including home invasions and many assaults during transactions.  These tragedies continue still but they will never shut it down.  I won't dare to put a percentage on this as the percentage police will use that as an attempt to dismantle my actual argument.

Anything that offends the wrong "stiff" with sex involved, will get shutdown, no questions asked.  Sadly that is America's Puritan legacy.

I am concerned for independent game creators, and for all of us who enjoy these games, whether you want to believe it or not.

I have said my peace.  You will be relieved to hear that I won't make the mistake of ever coming back.

https://www.trustwave.com/en-us/resources/blogs/spiderlabs-blog/an-in-depth-look...

Dozens more articles on why "mailto" links are dangerous for everyone.  Just look it up, but don't tell me I am "making things up".

It is not a problem that advice is not well received.

If not, you are not giving advice. If not, then from your ignorance you come to try to impose your vision which is NOT correct.
We have tried to explain several things to you, but you make NO effort to try to understand what we are telling you.
Every thing they say to you, you take it as an attack that must be answered from your wrong point of view.

Do you want to give advice and have it be well received?

Try to be more humble, if everyone is telling you that you were wrong, it is very likely that you are wrong. Think about that instead of just answering from your ignorance.

I'm going to try one last time, see if you're really interested.

You're not just searching for "Apple Pie," you're searching for "pie."
As you search by "pie", the system will show you all the "pie".
If the community (not the Itch administration) consumes "blueberry pie". The system will show you that first.
That simple concept, you don't seem to want to understand. and that is the problem, is that you make that effort to not understand something that is very simple. You got it into your head that Itch is bad and all you're looking for is reinforcement. And of course you are going to feel frustrated, because no one is going to reinforce your idea, because it is wrong.

The same with "mailto", your ignorance makes you see things that are not, but instead of recognizing your mistake you persist in them. It's normal for you to feel frustrated.

Don't you like "blueberry pie"?

Perfect, it's your taste, your decision and no one has to change it.

If the community of a place mostly consumes that content. Why should they accommodate your wishes? They have been consuming and enjoying that content and only because you arrive and you don't like it. Should they change it?

Do you realize how arrogant and ignorant you sound?

Don't want to see "blueberry pie" in your search?

Ask how you can do a search without that content. But no, instead of asking questions or suggesting improvements, what you come to is criticize thousands of people who consume "bluberry pie", in a way that, let's be honest, is not the best.

That's the problem, don't ask us to understand you, when you don't want to understand what we tell you. Especially because you arrive at a place. You are the new one.

You are technically correct that calling anthropomorphic animals in a game "furry" is not accurate for the usual real world definition of the term furry, since such a thing like anthropomorphic animals does not exist.

But you are mistaken in your game tagging assessment, what furry means. It means what people make it mean. And in gaming it has evolved to include anthropomorphic animals. (Oh, and the word gay actually means cheerful. But it evolved to mean male homosexuality. Curious, how meanings of words can adapt, isn't it.)

Also, as I said, complain to the players and the devs for using those tags and for making them popular. Itch is not the one to blame for. Sure, you can complain that itch does not have curated tags. We all do. But you insist they are somehow at fault for peoples taste in games or usage of tags.

I have no clue why you think I could threaten your account or where I should have done so. You are probaby mistaken me for someone else. If you speak about that other post from another person, you do not even apply the meaning of email or post correctly there.

And what's with the insinstence that the existence of link handling in your operation system is the fault of itch? A "mailto" link is a html link, just like any other link. If you click on https://itch.io/ in, for example an pdf document or your mail client, or your document viewer, your system will open your designated web browser. There are several kinds of html links, should you bother to learn about them. They start with a href. Oh look, like that one:

<a href="mailto:email@example.com">Send Email</a>

a href. Now what to do if I were your operating system? Now, of course open your designated web br... oh, that is a mail link, so open your designated mail client.

And do not confuse search for browsing tags. That is different. You have a search box to insert search terms. And there is tag box to click or type in tags. If you type apples in the search box, you will find a randomly and truncated list of results, that the search algorithm deems relevant for the search term apples. If you write in apples in the tag box, you will get a complete list of all games that were tagged by the developers with apples. The list will be sorted a little bit according to some popularity criteria, but it will include each and every item a dev tagged apples, wether apples is applicable or correct for the game - or not.