Post by redonihunter in Why don't admins relay to whoever made them staff that we need an exclude tag option?

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but this does not work

It does. Just checked. The feature only works if you are logged into your account. And it is a browse feature. Not a search feature. I guess people use a bookmark to use the feature for their usual search.

We either need a blacklist tag attached to our accounts or an exclude tag option next to the search bar.

I agree that filtering some content account wise would be nice. Mostly "mature" stuff with more granularity like yes/no. Steam has like 4 or 5 of those filters.

And a user interface for existing features would also be nice, but unfortunately, this is an "inofficial" feature. Making it official would also be nice. We do not know the reasons, as for so many things. This is not something unusual. Itch does not talk a lot about reasoning why certain things are like they are.

or the same story LGBT games while you are not logged in. While I am at work I can't find a game to play unless I endlessly scroll past all those aforementioned games, which takes ~10 minutes of looking for any changes that day to the top games section.

For changes in the top games section, tag filtering is not a good solution. Especially for lgbt. There are like 10-20 different tags for this.

The thread below talks about what might help here, but such a feature is of course also missing, hence the thread.

https://itch.io/t/3477347/add-an-option-to-exclude-owned-games-when-searching

I made a client side solution. Basically you would press a key while hovering over each item you already checked out. After that, those items will be hidden and stay hidden. This is quite effective for a slowly changing list - and it can spoil your browsing habits, so turn it off once in a while. It is the tampermonkey script on my project page. Doing it in tampermonkey was inspired here https://itch.io/t/1018893/a-never-show-me-this-again-please-button

Newgrounds is old as dirt and has exclude tags, Gamejolt has exclude tags

Interesting. Where is their interface button for this?

https://gamejolt.com/games/tag-action

So how do I remove the horror games in that tag search?

https://www.newgrounds.com/search/conduct/games?tags=adventure

Same for newgrounds. How do I remove horror games from that tag search?

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Moozly179 days ago

For people like me who play games at work to pass the 12 hour shift by, I can not download or do any rudementary methods besides blocking the adult content in my account and blocking 1 tag.

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redonihunter179 days ago

Please answer these questions:

How do I exclude on Newgrounds? How do I exclude on Gamejolt?

You claimed it is possible. I want to know how.

And can you or anyone else describe in a use case how multiple tag exclusion would be actual useful. Please.

Because, well, I have access to tools and ways to implement client side full multiple tag exclusion. It takes a minute to set up, but it works. But I just see no benefit in it. Convince me, that I can find my favorite game only by using multiple tag exclusion. Or at least, much faster. And also convince me, that I will not miss my future favorite game by having accidentally used a tag exclusion.

I do see a tremendous benefit in ticking games off, so you do not see them again. Like described here https://itch.io/t/1018893/a-never-show-me-this-again-please-button And this will be heaps better than ignoring tags. The first pages of popular do not change fast. Ticking off games takes a minute and they stay ticked off and will not clutter your browsing.

That is what I use, and it is very effective. Tag exclusion is nice on paper, but it is of questionable use when you consider how the games are tagged. It is the developers that do it, and they have different opinons about tags. So they might not tag the unwanted tag, or have the unwanted tag, but the content does not qualify for the tag in your opinion.

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