Post by Eris Lord Freedom in Delete all ADULT games

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I agree that adult content should be filtered out even when you're searching for specific tags - you should not have to know which terms are "all adult content" to keep them blocked. This is a bug that deliberately shows adult contents to people who have selected the "do not show me adult content" option, including minors.

Someone (not a minor) should do some research into what tags can bypass the "don't show me adult content" option. (If you search for ren'py, will you see adult ren'py games? Or is it only if you search the tags that definitely mean explicit sexual content? In which case... wow, that is a STUPID feature.)

If people want to see adult content and are dismayed when their searches for those tags come up blank, the page can have a message that says "You have this setting blocked in your profile options. To see these results, you will need to check the box that says..."

When I search on Steam, I often get results that say "4 titles have been excluded based on your preferences." (Or 12 titles. Or 37 titles. I have a lot of popular game tags blocked.) If I want to see those results, I can adjust my settings.

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redonihunter188 days ago

the tags that definitely mean explicit sexual content

All tags have a fuzzy meaning that lies in the eye of the beholder. That is not only an issue with adult tags, but for tags on itch in general, since the developer choses the tags.

Also, just because you tag a thing, does not mean you will show it in graphic detail. It is debateable, if pure text games should be considered "nsfw", even if they deal with such topics and thus could tag them. But even with graphics, you can have topics without showing them. There is a reason why you used the explicit qualifier.

Also, the current tag descriptions do not even spell out that it is explicit content, for example this one

Erotic

Usually containing sexual themes, content or more. Not safe for work most of the time.

Which tags ignore the setting is arbitrary. But it is not tags you typically find on games aimed at underaged players. Except horror maybe. But that is another discussion, how much horror a game can have before it has to be marked as adult. (the horror tag does not ignore the setting, but by the logic for the mechanism, it should).

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Eris Lord Freedom188 days ago

I'm aware it's fuzzy.

I meant, games whose tags would normally make them blocked by the "don't show me adult content" filter, but are viewable in a tag search. (I'm also aware that games tagged with something like 'sex' does not mean there is actually sexual content; accurate tagging is a whole separate issue.)

If there are games hidden from general search by the adult content setting - those games should not come up in a more specific search or tag search. I'm not concerned with where itch.io draws the lines, but the lines should be the same no matter what kind of search is being done.

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redonihunter188 days ago

Tags do not make them blocked, I think you meant that they normally would be blocked by the setting, because they are marked in their meta data as adult.

You are concerned that there might be tags one does not know what they mean and suddenly they unlock the adult content. Eroge is the only one I can think of. For that matter, even nsfw and other common adult tags, since we are talking about juveniles and at that they might not even be fluent in english. Otherwise, the tags are what adult games use to make them visible for people looking for that content. And a few explicit tags. The surprising thing is more, which typical adult tags do not ignore the setting.

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