I'm starting to think some kind of volunteering to help the itch team might be another way to do it.
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I have been doing a few things that could fit that description in the past weeks: Write reports when users were breaking the community rules, report to give moderators the heads-up when somebody needs help or accidentally posted their thread in the wrong topic… And then I found my own voice and branched out: Give new developers the heads-up when they forgot to include a screenshot or wrote a novel instead of a short pitch in their game’s release announcement, called people out when they where taking the sips, suggested to users that they could find the answer to their question by scrolling down through the comments (in less time than it would take them to write a refund request)… And the more blatantly rotten their attitude, the less I sugarcoated my response - that’s a freedom I take with this since I have no ambitions in becoming a community moderator or anything like that. Let’s just say that some people did not take that as well as others. The only thing about it that I regret would be presuming their innocence for as long as I did. I wouldn’t say they make up as much as even 5% of the itch.io user base, but they are… I struggle to put it into words, due to the language barrier, but I think “nasty” might be a fitting term to describe them. Judging from your posts, I think if you are interested in helping out you might find it rewarding work. However… My advice would be that you maybe don’t make any even vaguely critical statements if you chose to involve yourself. Or do so with another user account. If I had any works of mine published on this account I’m pretty sure they would be sitting on a 1.something rating by now… Risk your livelihood in battles that are more important than these. ;)
That being said: Dark Dimension has been a member of this community since 2014 and seem to have been avoiding the fate I just described. On the other hand they have the composure of a Tibetan monk and always offer a very tempered response, even when dealing with users who have clearly lost it.
As always: Other points of view are available.