Greetings! My game "SCP: Affection" is still under shadowban, even tho I followed the new rules. May you please unban it? Also I don't have access to your discord server. Best Regards!
Request Code: 299031
- Please don’t hijack other people’s comments for your own support issue
- We didn’t “shadow ban” anyone. We “deindexed” a subset of pages from the discovery part of the site based on some criteria and announced it to our users https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_banning
- Your page does not follow the new rules because you still are accepting payments on it. Please read here: https://itch.io/t/5149036/reindexing-adult-nsfw-content
So what you're telling me is that the creators of NSFW content are still able to make money, even though multiple developers (that you also have responded to in this very thread) are able to make money, with no problems whatsoever? Because that's the real issue I'm trying to get at - I'm saying the actual definition doesn't matter because developers relied on the organization you work for to be consistent in protecting their interests, and yet the second it comes down to it, Itch instantly bends over for payment processors the second it becomes a little bit too spooky for Itch's liking - so much so that they don't warn anyone about getting their games de-listed and Itch doubles down on their decision instead of admitting they might've done a lot of people dirty.
So no, I don't think the actual literal definition makes a difference, because NSFW artists and devs have been following the rules like everyone else, but uh oh, a tiny bit of pressure comes from the top and they now have to run and hide like rats cause Itch didn't find the spine to warn anybody about ANY of this at ANY point.
Anyway, please keep going on about how the PLATFORM is at risk, instead of the developers that put their games and work on here. It's very clear where the interests of Itch (and therefore you as a worker for them) lie when the platform would rather ruin just the NSFW creator's livelihoods and not everyones, where the latter would actually inspire a lot of outrage and Itch would get a lot of support from a variety of communities in general, and the former is scummy but won't comparatively get as much backlash from the wider gaming community. Though I guess the former kinda backfired much to Itch's surprise, as clearly indicated by the walking back on the platform's part, but uh-oh! Itch kinda put themselves in a shitty spot, cause now people are actively complaining about it on their platform.
Maybe Itch shouldn't immediately be capitulating to the desires of payment processors if it's going to isolate and alienate the userbase and creators that have made Itch what it is, and the people working there should INFORM SAID USERS AND DEVELOPERS about potential threats to the platform, instead of just doing obviously bad actions with no forewarning to those impacted whatsoever.
The "_owner_" of Itch deserves to be criticized more than most because they have far more control over the platform than most, but I repeat myself.
On another note, if you're going to jump into the last post in an argument, you should read a couple of the previous posts and think about how your opposition might reply - and only after that should you then give your argument, because you're writing way too self-assuredly to be throwing out points that I already responded to in just that previous post alone.