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I think the faqs are simply outdated or describe the situation as it would be, without whatever troubles piled up over the last year. I experienced such scenarios first hand, where each little needle sting would not matter, but all together they result in a pile up and basically a traffic jam that additionally creates work. That is why I am criticising the lack of warning messages at the right places. I believe it creates additional work, making everythign even worse. Some of the needle stings would include: tax season, sickness wave, several ddos attacks on Itch and of course, scammers doing bad things.

The last bit is very real and creates a megaton of work that we all do not see. I only see the things that Itch staff and automatics did not catch and that is still a lot. The scammers are adapting quickly and from their patterns it hints that Itch managed to greatly improve on one thing. Unfortunately that thing has as a side effect a lot of quarantines and of course longer waiting times for indexing and more games not being indexed.

 I am definitely not a scammer

That's what a scammer would say ;-)