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Sure.

It’s the “I’ve been told” part, which makes me think I received that information from someone else, most likely an admin, automated message system or moderator. It can also mean that an ordinary member of the community told me, but that’s where the “previous question” comes in.

“Why did my game disappear from the site? It was visible before.”

This to me seems like “I’ve been told my game is ‘quarantined’ – what’s that mean?!”, but worded slightly differently. The thing is, I don’t know what ‘quarantined’ means exactly. Does it mean the game has been fully removed, or is it just impossible to find with the search bar, like what being de-listed does? I just assumed that both are pretty much the same thing, since nobody can find your game through the search function anyway.

Both of those points pretty much say the same thing. “Your game has been automaticaly flagged and it is not visible to others. Please wait untill we resolve this.” The first point doesn’t say anything that could be interpreted as “we will notify you”. The second point does, atleast to me. That’s what confused me.

Personaly, I think removing the second point and altering the first point. so it says “Why did my game disappear from the site / got quarantined? It was visible before.” would make it pretty much impossible to interpret them in a wrong way and answer to both those questions is pretty much the same anyway. Adding a clarification what de-listed and Quarantined actualy means would help and adding a line that says you will not be notified when that happened couldn’t hurt either.

And I just want to apologise if my wording sounds rude, angry or impolite. It’s just the way I type and I don’t really want anyone to think that I’m trying to be mean.

Thanks.

"Quarantined" means your game can't be found in searches, and someone from the staff has to look at it. The latter is how I usually explain it to people. I don't know how this term was picked.

The message is different when trying to download the game.

When the game is unindexed, it simply doesn't appear in the Itch search engine, but if you access the page, it works normally.

When a game is marked as "quarantined," in addition to being unindexed, if someone tries to download that game, Itch displays a warning, indicating that the game may be potentially dangerous.

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So the game being “quarantined” is pretty much the same as it being de-listed? If that’s the case, why have two points in the FAQ focusing on the exact same thing? Or is de-listed / de-indexed the same thing as quarantined, except nobody will come and have a look at it?

To make it less confusing. Is this right?

Quarantined - Your game is not visible, staff will have a look if everything is OK and make it visible again

De-indexed - Your game is not visible. It broke some rule and it will not come back unless you fix what’s wrong.

...Because there's in fact more to it, as Hechelion pointed out, and often people ask specifically about their games being quarantined.

Sorry, didn’t notice the post above. Everything makes sence now. Thanks.

Still, adding some kind of glossary of frequently used terms and their explanation to the FAQ page, or somewhere else would make things easier in the future. As I said, I would have never known what the difference between de-listed and quarantined is if I didn’t ask.