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Huh?

So wait a minute.

Is the game in question an "adult" game according to acceptable use on itch or is it not?

And if it is not, can you not just change the metadata back to being non adult?

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It's NSFW according to me. I marked it as NSFW figuring to err on the side of caution. My issue is that this one game is clicked as NSFW under metadata, therefore my entire profile shows up like the picture above. There isn't a "separate games are separate games" approach to profiles.  Yes, I suppose I could change it back? But then I figure acceptable use might later harass me about it. Ah okay, you talked me into it. If acceptable use complains about it later, do they give me notification that I can properly modify it? Or is it abruptly just delisted? That's the sort of thing I'm concerned about, some sorta scary mod action. Like, being away from itch.io for a year and finding all my games were gone because mods were like "Oracle of Tao has moaning sounds in it."

Do you have naked genitalia shown in the game or at least boobs? Some gory mauled human bodies? No? Your game is sfw! 

Look here for a "sfw" game with some disclaimer example you can adapt for your moaning. 

https://teamsalvato.itch.io/ddlc

And I bet you will find more than moaning in these sfw games tagged under romance. (be sure to turn adult games off in settings. Now that you are no longer a creator with an adult game, you can turn that off. Creators with adult games can not turn that off. You are visible again, should you not have noticed.)

https://itch.io/games/tag-romance

Acceptable use is a figure of speech. I did not search extensivly for any definition that itch put forth, what must be marked as adult.

But as long as your game is not intended as a porn game or an explicit horror game, it most likely is non adult. Just imagine what rating it would have, if it would have an official rating. If it would be 16 or less, chances are, it is "non adult".

Of course, cultural values are different everywhere. In Europe, naked boobs would get you to maybe 16, depending on context, and violence will quickly get you to 18. In US it is the other way round. Violence seems ok for kids, but beware the occasional naked pixel bosom.