Post by Airell in How does the popular section work? (are we delisted?)

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I understand you're a mod and all, man. I respect your role here. But let's go...

1. You work thousands of hours for two years to create a game, monthly updates, a lot of spending with art assets, self-promotion on different sites, maintain a beautiful page.

2. You get good results, and you are satisfied with it.

3. A year later, the admin decides that you don't deserve the result you have and takes it away from you because others need attention.

Now, my artist and I were materially harmed by this, a concrete thing. Me and many other devs... And yes, unfairly. I just ask for a little empathy from you, and pls try to understand the side of the people who are suffering from the staff's poor decisions.

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No Time To Play1 year ago(+1)

There are over 850K games on itch.io, and who knows how many creators. Even if only 1% of them work as hard as you, that's still a lot of people. I don't see them come here and complain about a feature they were told isn't reliable, demand an official answer, then ignore that answer and insist they must be somehow targeted.

In an earlier post you used the word "meritocracy". You might want to look up why that word is extremely problematic.

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redonihunter1 year ago(+1)

the admin decides that you don't deserve the result you have and takes it away from you

You assert human agency. And then base your reasoning on this, as if it were true.

If it were true that someone decided your stuff should not deserve your results, you would have been de-indexed. You are not de-indexed.

While it looks like something did happen that was out of the ordinary and screwed with ranking big time, your game will recover. There is a pool of people looking for games like yours. While that pool might grow slowly as new people discover itch, you still have an area to expand in that can be considered finite. If you do not reach them today, you will reach them tommorrow. But the other way around is also true. If they already checked out your game, why should they do so again.

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