I’m curious if anyone here who was delisted got reindexed after the announcement for the policy change, and also if anyone has ever actually gotten a reply from support (as in ever, not just about the NSFW thing).
I have. It seems that maybe sending an email then managing to catch someone’s attention days or weeks later in these forums helps in getting a response.
But I’ve been watching creators who are possibly being ignored until they give up or until something behind the scenes changes. You might need to make what the admins secretly like? Or that’s an arrogant statement. No one seems to know. Placement in a queue could be based on IP location and a surveillance company’s profiling from keywords half the time.
From what I can tell, the rules listed aren’t actually followed (there are a surprisingly large amount of instantly indexed games that break the rules)
Yeah, that’s true.
it seems like the key is to upload a game page once and never touch it again as a small dev until you get a more serious following.
Could be.
I want to add that the threshhold for a protective following appears to be low after indexing. If you can publish multiple projects that are added to other people’s collections, then you might be able to update or make corrections to projects without them disappearing from search results.
Obviously no one here is banned, but maybe if you saw things like view counts dropping to near zero after updating or something like that.
My projects were deindexed because of edits back when not all of my projects were indexed. I’m pretty sure that hasn’t happened since.
But note that none of my projects are officially considered “adult NSFW”. (Typing that phrase triggered a glitch on the page? We’ll see if this posts.)
I was going to say: uploading erotica might completely change what happens with account updates. This is, of course, all guesswork. There’s no clear and honest official record of how this site operates that I’ve been able to find.