just outright banning everything dirty is indeed a bit too extreme
but no one can deny that there is a flood of nsfw and pretty much taken over
itch lately 🤔
it would be nice to have some sort of strict SFW option for the site
like a special safe version with a different url or something
but I understand that there is not much of a chance of that happening 🤔
(I have a friend who got disturbed by the fact that dirty stuff
was shown next to his content and ended up leaving itch a while ago )
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If you are referring to the title of the post, that was referring to the unwanted appearance of the games in browse. Not their existence on Itch.
Of the 1 million games here, about 2% are nsfw. A flood of nsfw, that is taking over itch... Maybe you should browse different tags, if all you see is nsfw.
If Itch is "flooded" with something, it is horror, and I blame youtube.
it would be nice to have some sort of strict SFW option for the site
Content — How content on itch.io is shown to you
( ) Show content marked as adult in search & browse
Please make sure you have this option deactivated in your settings. And make sure to give Itch a feature request that they should not block this setting, just because an account has uploaded a nsfw game (Should one of your games be marked as such and your setting is blocked because of that).
Because what you say is how Itch does work. There are pitfalls, unfortunately. You can still see that content, if you select certain tags. Their workaround is to not have those tags in the suggestion box. And you can see those games on profiles.
If you see them in browse your account is configured to see them.
The observation that people are more willing to pay for this type of content on average is just this. It is not an indicator for an invasion, but an indicator for popularity.
Speaking of popularity, look at the top 10 in popular sort. That will be 90% horror. Are we invaded by horror then?
And I can even name a reason why people are more willing to pay. Production value and professionalism. If you scrutinize the list of games that have a Steam key, you will find that about 10% of those games are nsfw games, which is a lot higher than the ~2% ratio. This tells me, that on average the production quality of those games is higher. It is not a perfect metric, but it is objective instead of subject. And being able to release on Steam is kinda telling on how professional a group of developers is. Amateurs do not do this. And professionals also do more marketing, like zero cost devlogs.
yes I'd say that horror and adult content is flooding everything 🤔 (sign of the times I guess)
listen do you have some sort agenda or simply obsessed about this thing? (I mean no offense you just seem to have a lot of long replies)
I mean I'm not sure anymore what are we even arguing about at this point or if we even do
like we both seem to agree that there is an influx of adult games
and your point seem to be that the measures for hiding them are already more than adequate? 🤔
and your point seem to be that the measures for hiding them are already more than adequate?
There was a loophole. It was kinda fixed. This thread was about this loophole. There could be improvements. I wish for a more strict following of the setting and that the setting would not be blocked for content uploaders. But currently, unless you have an account that has the content activated, you should not see it in search and not in browse.
Also I would welcome a more complex maturity setting than yes or no.
I do not have an agenda, but since I can type rather fast, I tend to write a lot and I also like to discuss and I just do not quite agree with that inflood observation and tried to argue why I think so. Also, in inflood would be about new games, not about the top games. About 1 in 25-50 new games is adult. About 1 in 14 new games is horror.