I have an idea for itch.io

The last idea I submitted(image post requirements listed in quality guidelines) didn’t work out, so I don’t know if this will work out either

What if the adult content warning was also added to posts

This will allow for a little edgier posts.

Right now, you can’t advertise adult games on itch.io via the posts, and this suggestion is not meant to allow that, but it is meant to give a little more freedom in what can be said and done in posts assuming an adult content warning is placed on that post.

How this should work if added is this:Similar to adult content warnings on games, and the post is not viewable until you have enabled the ability to view adult content in settings

You would be able to place it manually, or if you don’t, I would imagine moderators would automatically place it by themselves. There would probably be a limit placed in what posts can be made without an adult content warning placed on it.

This is a blog post I made on my profile called “ok but not ok news”. It’s going over modern topics, and the point is not on adult content or anything controversial, it’s just me doing a brief talk about modern topics. But in the beginning, I said “shit”, in the first sentence. Of course, me saying “shit” here alone would not be enough to warrant a adult content warning on that post, but if I were to create a post with  “shit” in just about every sentence, that would probably warrant an adult content warning on that post. 

Of course, this doesn’t permit adult content games to be advertised on the posts, you would still have to find another place to advertise it.

However, this idea is meant to permit posts that go over more controversial topics in the community, assuming they are not over the top or reviews about more mature games on itch.io, assuming the review does not go into the graphic stuff that granted the game the adult content warning in the first place, and also if the review is brief. Of course, posts like those two concepts would have to get an adult content warning placed on it.

This isn’t facilitating any adult content in the posts, so to speak, but it is allowing a little more freedom in what can be posted without placing any real harm in the community like I said.

This is not an idea that the itch.io admins are not obligated to include, this is just an idea. If it does get added, feel free to interpret this however you want,

Controversial topics are discouraged anyways.

As for advertising, advertising on itch is forbidden. At least in the community boards. Speaking for non adult games. You can make a release announcement. And there are rare threads where the mention of games name is not automatically banned, but advertising, that is forbidden.

What could be done to make adult games more find-able, and what I suggested without much response, is to make the adult label searchable. It currently is not positivly searchable. Only negativly excludeable. It is not a visible tag, it is in the metadata. ( https://itch.io/t/2892152/make-marked-as-adult-a-searchable-tag   )

So if a player would search for games tagged adult and sort by publishing date or rating or whatever, he would miss all the games, where the creator did use one of the other tags, instead of adult. Like nsfw - or none at all, because according to your screenshot, he only needs to put adult in the metadata... yes, but that is not gonna help being found by players.

But making  posts "adult"? If the post only contains text, it can't be adult. Even if you talk about adult stuff. We are talking about adult related stuff right now. And talking about specific games is discouraged in most boards anyways, this is not only for adult games.