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With all-due respect, this seems immensely vulnerable to brigading. Imagine a marginalized creator (many of which have made their homes on Itch) getting their profile mass-flagged by the right in an attempt to ruin their credibility. Sure, this could be moderated, but I don't think Itch has the capacity to do that efficiently.

check OP,  suggestion has 0%  user input. this is purely a "did they sell something and take it away" or "did they promise and sell steam keys on itch then not follow through with keys when their game released on steam" sort of thing, and would be automated

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I feel you might be under-estimating how difficult it is to automate such a thing.

extremely simple: dev makes store page, dev sells game, dev deletes everything = red flag

dev makes store page, dev sells game, dev deletes all downloads, dev uploads nothing in a reasonable time ex. 5 days = red flag that can be removed by restoring downloads

dev makes store page selecting "comes with steam key option",  steam store page with "upcoming" status linked, game released on steam, 2 weeks pass, no keys have been added to itch.io key dispenser for valid purchases = red flag that can be removed by adding the keys sold

all the variables already exist for the store to work such as sales tracking, whether the  DL page exists, whether the DL page is empty, etc.