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Hello firecat, I appreciate the thoughtful response.  When someone asks for NSFW content to be flagged, that is 'adult' content.  It is already widely-established that adult content on the internet is suitable only for those 18+ by law and by the standards of society as it currently exists.

I do believe 'everything should be allowed' on itch.io as long as it is not: virus/malware/trojan, scam, misrepresentative content, it works and doesn't just break/crash constantly.

While I enjoy the curation of GoG, I don't believe that curation should be the 'only' standard of a games platform.  So far itch.io has been heavily favored towards game developers and less towards the actual end-users.  It will remain a very niche platform as long as this is the case.  The itch.io platform has the potential to be something truely amazing on-par with and directly competing with others.  That won't happen if we allow tumblrinas to control the system.

Trigger warnings are not 'standard' in the world (thankfully) nor are they required.  A simple tagging system for 'potentially objectionable' content is sufficient.  Allow both the community and the creators to use tags and have mods handle reported tags that may be inaccurate.

I have no issue with the itch.io rules other than how vague they are (by design) that allows for wide/open interpretation that permits for censorship of reasonable ideas and viewpoints that happen to contradict what some special snowflake happens to dislike.  I don't care for them, to be honest.

I'll stand by my statements in how I feel about trigger warnings being added to the itch platform and that it would be to the severe detriment (and possible outright destruction/abandonment) of the entire platform.  That would be a shame :(

I'm not really here to make friends or change minds.  Just expressing my opinions without the threat of overly-aggressive moderation/censorship.  I'm not screaming obscenities or using all caps or otherwise directly naming & shaming individuals.  They cannot fit me or those like me into a simple 'troll' box.  Their attempts to do so will ultimately fail miserably.

Firecat, you seem to have a good grasp of how things work and I would greatly enjoy if you were willing to join my FreshGaming Discord server to chat with myself and others.  I already have some other fellow game designers and am hoping to bring on more as time goes on.  Gamer perspective is nice but game designers have their own perspective and it is really useful to get a variety of viewpoints on things.