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Regarding an automated system, as far as I can recall, the admin has never given any reasons, but many of us believe it’s to prevent bad actors from taking advantage. For example, if the system notified you automatically, you could program a bot to look for patterns of what is indexed and what isn’t.

That doesn’t make much sence to me, since you know your game was de-indexed pretty much the moment you check your analytics page or try searching for it. The only difference I can tell (unless I’m missing something), is the fact that you don’t know at first why you can’t find your game anymore. Then you check the forum and the FAQ and now you know. Getting the message would tell you what happened without having to search the forum.

I made one blog post several months ago. I made another a week ago and few hours later my game got de-indexed. I’m like 99% certain the system flagged it because of the blog post or the new version upload. And if that’s the case, making a bot would (probably) only be very slightly easier with the automated messages, because it takes action maybe hours after it finds a reason for flagging, instead of months like for example VAC does.

On another note. Do you know why moving uploads up or down doesn’t scroll the whole screen anymore? It did that a year or so ago. Then the interface for moving uploads changed and now I have to scroll the screen if I want to move something up or down by multiple positions.