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Any rules on having a second account?

A topic by lewdGorilla created Jul 02, 2022 Views: 1,111 Replies: 2
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So, it's been since almost a week that I wrote to support, and they didn't respond, and oh-noes, as it's against the rules to ask here "how long it will take for support to reply to you" and it's also against the rules to do here any kind of "discussion of account restrictions", and as I still don't even have a clue about whether I got an "account restriction" or whether some kind of odd website or browser bug is causing my problem, I'm naturally getting inpatient and annoyed, and also starting to look like a real fool as I have commented on games "Yay, Cool, I support you!" up rating them to 5-stars, then my ratings suddenly disappeared, and as time goes on developers roll out new versions of their games and notice my 5-star rating missing, they go to think they messed up something in the new release, and as I rated many (395) games, I really don't feel like explaining to every developer one-by-one, that "oh, don't mind my ratings missing, you are doing good", so I'm really starting to feel annoyed, and ... Sigh, okay...

So the title of this topic is whether itch has any rules against having a second account, as I'm starting to believe it isn't worth the time to wait for a reply from support, and if they are very much sure in their head about that I'm a spam-bot, then they may just ignore my emails anyway, so what about deleting my account and making a new one? Oh, wait itch doesn't have a delete account button, so I must somehow ask support through email to get my account deleted, and they may just ignore me anyway... So what about abandoning the whole parody ongoing about my account and just creating a new one?

So, I tried to read through the community rules again, and didn't found anything regarding this.

Does itch have any kind of rules about having multiple accounts from the same IP address?

Does itch have a spartan "1 person = 1 IP = 1 account" policy, or do they understand that multiple persons can live in a family using the same IP address? I may as well just really abandon following itch and instead ask my naughty grandpa to categorize, follow and download adult games for me. lol

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It's all right to have more than one account, as long as you don't use them to recommend / star your own games, or other similar acts.

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Thanks, for the answer :)

And as I'm only a user, I'm not a developer, so I have never ever made any game, so I really should not have a problem with rating any games on itch. But then again it would be good to know where did I hit a nerve for itch, but as they are not answering, sadly I can not learn anything from this incident. Also, from the perspective of a user, the level of secrecy itch practices feels very strange, as there are bigger websites on the internet, which do not need to rely on obscurity as a security measure, and even have a private messaging system. Yeah I understand you can't do anything about it, but certainly I must say you have helped me here on this forum a lot more than the itch support staff, which still didn't replied to my email, so thanks really :)

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