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well hopefully god will descend from the clouds and waggle his coding finger and make some alterations to how the site processes comments

I’m not attacking you. but I even appreciate that you feel that way you clearly have a lot of love for itchio and that's good, I'm doing the only thing I can other than sitting on my thumb. I’ve played your work and genuinely enjoy it. I find the ascii styling charming. Unfortunately my format is to leave a comment with my gameplay footage and then rate the game after because I dont like to just rate a game. I find the gameplay footage makes my comment more sincere because through my gameplay you can tell if I actually got passionate about the game and enjoyed it.  But I got lowkey addicted to that procedurally generated maze one where you collect syntax and at first the fear mechanic was really confusing to me but then I was speeding through like a bad ass. THEN I read that you needed to go in the bottom right corner and was like :O ohhhhhhhhhhh and stopped playing cause i got embarrassed. So I hope that clears up that im not yelling at you and infact dont really view you in a negative light aside from perhaps how i am upset with itchio as a platform and i do view you as a part of the 'itchio team', genuinely my bad if i made you feel that way. You're a indie game developer and I appreciate most indie game developers you included. That's besides the point though.

edit; honestly i just thought about it and "if the admins dont reply, then who exactly are you yelling at" is pretty much you saying the admins probably aren't going to do anything and you're the only one who is going to read this so why subject you to this? am i off?

 What’s happening on Itch.io is a widespread issue, and the only way anything changes is if the community speaks together. Creators should be able to approve or filter what posts on their own pages maybe they could have the option to do it on a game by game basis or as a general blanket on anything their account puts out; even if staff doesn’t act, at least the community would know what creators want.

Itch.io has been great, in the past... but this is a new era and itchio is losing face. I might be upset but I STILL dont want itchio to fail.  Lack of action is not going to help that. Open communication is how change happens, and formal complaints go nowhere. I want itchio to take notice of the outrage and do something. Hopefully that is the outcome regardless of how I am interpreted. 

Am I upet? Yeah. I don’t want to resent Itch.io, but many of us do and moreso by the day. The silence and lack of visible management are driving people away. If the admins choose not to act, that’s on them—but at least the community will have clearly voiced its concerns.

its crazy you look at it like that instead of the reality that the community is voicing they are being ghosted by admins for months, we are all communicating the issue. If this issue doesn't get solved and it becomes exposed people will do something about it. saying  things like that only serves to shame us for some reason? may to encourage us as a community to not be communicating with each other that this is INDEED a very real problem and effecting MANY people. I dont know how am i supposed to read that? You're annoyed that the community is up in arms over this happening? We have every right to be upset about this and communicate with each other and this is now the only way we CAN because of itchio mods. Im not HIJACKING anything. Itchio was hijacked by project shout and now admins are literally ghosting people. There are creators who aren't being paid. There are people complaining and MODERATORS OR ADMINS HAVE NOT MADE ANY POSTS ABOUT WHAT THEY ARE GOING TO DO ABOUT IT OR ADDRESSING IT. lmao hijacking  I didnt care when someone posted on MY topic.  ITS A COMMUNITY POST. 

now its been another month

Yeah except people like me and many others are having this problem for over a month and nothing is being done and we have messaged support multiple times 

And the moderators are taking their sweet time ignoring this issue

yeah i dont know eitherway it was a bad decision. 

they didn't give the page owners/developers of the game the option to approve comments

they flagged and are screening legit comments that developers are requesting; i was requested to share gameplay footage and cant post a youtube link

whats next?

https://x.com/dabbittherabbit/status/2007554788779868199/photo/1

that sounds about right, i've been unable to post for nearly a month now lol

hahaha nice

thanks for doing your part hopefully the itchio team can figure out how to handle these in a timely manner or tell people WHY they are being put on this list in the first place and how to avoid it

sorry to bug you but I'm still having the problem ;-; happy holidays and hope you and everyone is having a good new year

i really want to interact with the indy devs on your site again  sorry if im being annoying u.u

yeah some smooth brain in this thread is saying we aren't shadow banned though LMAO

NEWSFLASH I NEVER GOT NOTIFIED OF THIS IN ANYWAY

being told a moderator has to approve your post isn't the same as saying:

TOUGH TOES YOU'RE NOT GETTING ANY COMMENTS APPROVED.

That's what a shadow ban is. You dont tell the user or make it obvious they are blocked from functionality of the website.

For some reason itchio has shadow banned us all.

they should hurry up and resolve this issue as its apparently been going on for months

yeah it actually hasn't gotten any better and is just fucking over the community for no reason

also im not here to argue the terms "shadow ban" with that other dude idgaf and that's completely irrelevant and he's wrong

I'm not banned but I mind as well be on other people's pages because the end result is the same. 

this is 100% going to end up damaging the platform

essentially you guys have stopped very little spam and just actually shadow banned your community

Thank you NTTP

 request (329746)

ok will do thank you :)

I sent one a week ago :)

please take my account off the spam list

Any idea why this happened? The same thing happened to me and all I do is post my video links with my gameplay and feedback of the game I'm playing... I thought that's what this site was for.. :<

hopefully it will be fixed soon because if commenting once a day or responding to people does this then the system is not good

the same thing is happening to me. i post my videos on Niven Hedinger's pages and he likes them so I dont know why Im having trouble sharing me enjoying his game with him. I comment at least once a day because I put out a video a day and want to share them with the makers of the games.

(sees this immediately after posting)

YOWZA! i can't wait to try it out! BRB

(if you're reading this they have prevented me from posting comments for over two weeks, sorry I played this game and its fun i just can't post anything new)

:O it will be a very merry and happy holidays if that last part is indeed the case :O   

                    we are all wishing you seasons cheer here at the Falcon X-Zero! 

second try i almost made it

what do the numbers mean Mason?! i did not hit her... i did not. wait... did I?

Post your Let's Play's here

oh **** i didn't know how to use a fire extinguisher! my species likes being on fire :O

i played it  and raged hard at the final boss ill upload soon :D lol

no worries everyone knows im a beeg gaming dummy! thanks for making so many fun, captivating, and interesting games :D