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Why is there so much PORN?!

A topic by SHROOMYCHRIST created Apr 19, 2025 Views: 3,529 Replies: 2
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I've been having an issue recently where the browse and all the top charts are inundated with porn. I can't turn off the setting that shows NSFW material because apparently I've "uploaded NSFW content", which I assume relates to the gory horror games I've made, but I have not once uploaded full-on PORN, and that absolutely doesn't mean I want to SEE porn. I can't exclude the tags from search because that feature's inexplicably not been added yet, and the front page has grown unusable from how much boobs and butt gets forced in my face! HELP ME! HELP! How do I stop seeing such filth, so much sex and nudity on my page?!

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You have one game marked as NSFW, Sacrarium: Intima. Based on the screenshots, that seems unneeded. If you untick the box in metadata, you should be able to turn off NSFW browsing in your account settings.

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On the one hand, I welcome the marking as sensitive for certain horror games. On the other hand, it is a very bad design choice to block the publisher's account from filtering out actual nsfw content. What is considered senstive is different world wide and as no time said, your game very likely is fine without the sensitive (adult) marking. Even if you would not consider it so yourself.

Make sure to use the feedback button to tell Itch you would prefer a better solution. There is no strict division between user and publisher accounts on Itch, but that feature kinda makes it necessary after the fact, if you want to use Itch as a user and as a publisher.

I do not know how much complaints are avoided by blocking that setting, but I just read three complaint threads in a row about this very issue. I suspect this solution is creating more problems than it solves.

There could be a disclaimer when toggling the setting. The page already knows and reacts to having a nsfw game uploaded. So the information is known at some place. It might even be used as a big bold and colorful disclaimer on every browse page as a banner information "you have adult content disabled and will not find your own projects" or whatever. I also would pragmatically reset the setting every time such a project is updated. Or show that option to the user.

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