I've been annoyed by the flood of Visual Novels and after months I've reached the point of wanting to rant.
As a good hearted internet person, I'd do the sensible thing and first search for it: "tag exclude" "tag exclusion search"... I've found ONE post, refering to another, refering to this 5 year old reply: https://itch.io/t/160014/can-i-use-exclusion-filters well that won't be enough. Another search for "search" and manually overlooking 20 posts... yeah no, nothing relating to my intend that I could add to. Obviously, I have to make my own post. Then I look for the right place to drop my rant instead of "General" and find this neat sticky thread. Yes, sticking it to top has just now prevented at least one additional rant thread. Reading through, I wanna say: If you mods feel bothered by the apparently weekly rants asking for that function, then tell me why was it so hard to find this? Why after 5 years we still need URL-editing to exclude one single tag instead of having a neat little button? Why feel you offended if anyone asks for multiple filters? You have a big fat library of great games so EVERYONE can find SOMETHING . But NOTHING itself is right for EVERYONE. Some people like this, some people like that, and since you have a (great, I may add) sortiment of tag "adult" games, the obsession with thinning down to the good stuff is a very personal matter.
It's not about "Visual Novels are bad" or "Horror Games are gross" or "Too much letters in the rainbow, where is the straight stuff". It's about "today I want to find this one specific thing that I can't find when the results are flooded with this other general thing". It can be something easy like "Roguelike but no shooters please" or something complicated like "Action but no platformer, Rich Story but no Visual Novel, Laidback but no Sandbox"... Of course the function stands and falls with how the creators tag their works. But hey, anyone ever been to any booru site knows that stuff.
And please do make a button so the next one does not have to search for a 5 year old devpost to learn how to URL-edit for single tag exclusion.