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No Time To Play1 year ago

No, search and curation on itch.io works by inclusion. Include what you like, instead of trying to exclude what you don't like.

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maxmansfeld1 year ago(+1)

So how do I include everything except the handful of things I dont like in an effective manner?

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No Time To Play1 year ago

For example by rating, like that page tells you, and also by making collections.

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maxmansfeld1 year ago

After 83 ratings I still havent managed to filter out visual novels. Any other tricks you got?

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No Time To Play1 year ago

Well, no, that won't "filter out" anything. Hopefully games you're likely to enjoy will crowd out the others, that's the idea. Like I said, try making collections.

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Ponydragon1 year ago(+1)

Wait. What? "things you might like based on your rating, purchase, and download history"

Is having games on a   collection adding to that as a hidden feature?

So having the  collection "vn i hate" is a bad idea to improve my recommendations? (just kidding, but you see what I mean. I use private lists for keeping overview)

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No Time To Play1 year ago

I could be wrong, but to the best of my knowledge public collections are used to help recommend similar games in certain parts of itch.io, not sure which. Your private collections are private either way.

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Ponydragon1 year ago

I read somewhere that devs get info on what collections their games are. Wich can make for tmi, if you think your collection is private.

And I do not like that your followers can see that. If I block someone do they get  no notifications anymore about me? I do not want to get stalked.

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No Time To Play1 year ago

I'm not sure how blocking works on itch.io, I think it's more like muting on other sites, but don't take my word for it. And yes, you can see your game is in some private collections, but you can't see what they're called or anything. Only a count,

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Ponydragon1 year ago

It does work. 

If your recommendations show lots of vn, you do play lots of them. Or they match exactly your interests in other tags.

In the meantime, try this

https://itch.io/games?exclude=tg.visual-novel
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Ponydragon1 year ago(+1)

Please do not go to random vn and rate them 1 star.

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