Post by AskiaW in 0.11 Sinful Slime and Good Bye comments

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Are you sure its because of the NSFW? I assume its cause of the "Virus" warning people get when downloading. That one will hide the game page until its resolved. Dunno how to resolve that though.

Mushroom Bloom Games73 days ago(+1)

I don’t think the problem is that it’s being detected as a “virus,” since many free games without a paid license get flagged that way. Either way, I’ll look into it, because itch.io doesn’t tell me the reason.

AskiaW72 days ago

Well the only thing I know that when I reported games (that I confirmed to have malware) as virus and they got that msg before downloading. At that point they lost the indexing and weren't able to be found on Itch anymore.

Before the "purge" there were malicious actors using games found somewhere else and uploading to itch while containing malicious code/software. I can send you links to those games as the game pages containing the files are still up but can't just be found via Itch anymore. I rather not post them publicly here tho.

Mushroom Bloom Games72 days ago(+1)

So your theory is that it’s not the tags or the content of my game that’s the problem, but rather that one or several people thought my game was a virus and flagged it as such? Don’t worry, I believe what you’re saying, there’s no need for you to give me any names.

AskiaW69 days ago

Yeah thats what I think. I think tags don't "hide" the game anymore. If there is something that is not allowed the whole page would just be removed. As seen with the wincest tag. They just hide the games while they were checking them.