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my game banned on io was never indexed.

A topic by ipodtouchhtml5b created 17 days ago Views: 98 Replies: 5
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I seem to be experiencing a site wide shadow ban for reasons I can't entirely understand. I did upload chris griffin stares at a women's butt but it was a draft. It shouldn't have banned all of my games. I also never used ai on any of the games I uploaded on here. some of my content is related to random ai behavior but I coded all that myself. all the games were also made before chatgpt existed. not that the roboplay game is my best game. far from it. it is definetly my worst game. 

I uploaded stupid stuff a while back. a game that used autoplay. I guess when it got deindexed there was a setting that got removed that prevented you from clicking on the game to load it. however that's needed by autoplay. for whatever reason even adding preloaders to game maker rarely works. this seems to the only way to trigger it in game maker 1.4 that works consistently. in any case stupid stuff got deindexed. probably because of it's name. but it's just a series of lucid comedy bits that are actually pretty funny. it's not a recorded video. it's an in engine game maker sequence. you can even move the character while they talk although admittedly the movement's a little sensitive.

itch.io's rules are archaic and arbitrary. I've emailed them twice and they just autoreject my ticket without explaining what exactly they did. my entire account has been shadow banned and I don't know why and I don't understand what happened. my wondering about the concept of porcupine sex joke was popular on gamejolt but I was smart enough not to upload it on itch.io. that wasn't really mature content. not that stupid stuff dealt with anything pertaining to sex. it was just some funny comedy bits that were entertaining. I regret not uploading the game to gamejolt at the same time I uploaded it to itch.io. that was a mistake. 

as you can see by the script. it's pretty funny and also isn't not safe for work. it's just pure discrimination for reasons that don't entirely make sense. 

could you please send a ticket to itch.io support to try to get the game banned on io indexed or if not get stupid stuff reindexed.

this is the url for the game. https://ipodtouchhtml5b.itch.io/banned-on-io

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Why do people keep using the term shadow ban wrong? Whatever this is, it is not a shadow ban. A shadow ban is, when everthing seems normal to you while browsing, but everyone else can't see your things.

If everyone, including you, can't see the things while browsing, that's being not indexed. And if it were banned, it would have been removed from the platform. You obviously can post comments, post games and your games are operational. So you are not restricted from those things.

So this is neither a shadow ban, nor a ban.

I do not know if your account is restricted in such a way that your games are not eliglible for indexing. That can happen. But if you did not violate terms of service, or did other bad things, that is very unlikely.

You have modified both those projects 20 hours ago. If you just uploaded one, because the other got "banned", and Itch really did remove it intentionally from index, that will be seen as a circumvention. On the other hand, if no one told you, it was intentionally removed (or not indexed), how should you know that you are circumventing any restrictions. But then again, uploading the same game twice is against quality guidelines.

So maybe sort your projects and read https://itch.freezing.top/t/4120453/unofficial-search-and-indexing-faq

Waiting for indexing can take more than a month. Possibly longer, since it's December. And judging by all these checking messages when accessing Itch, they have yet another ddos attack and staff is busy doing a lot of other things.

Also, if you got an answer, instead of just a ticket number, read carefully what was told. Usually they never answer any requests with the indexing topic.

Oh, and please read the rules of the questions & support category.

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well theyve deindexed all my games but they never told me why and contacting support doesn't do anything. but no essentially ive just gotten ticket numbers for all my emails. 

Your request (324169) has been received and is being reviewed by our support staff.

Your request (325784) has been received and is being reviewed by our support staff.

never received a response.

Okay so it's a deindexed ban but still I'm essentially not on the site. in any case there's no way I can get the game reindexed. they won't answer my emails. resending it to public does nothing and up and to this point I had done nothing wrong. I shouldn't have to be defensive. what itch.io is doing is absolutely wrong. I did nothing worthy of being deindexed. stupid stuff was a quality interactive movie. in any case anything I publish is automatically reviewed and rejected. it would make more sense to create a new account but I really don't feel like placating itch.io.

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if you run system diagnostics on your computer and it says number five alive do you have a virus?
if Linux is for programmers and hackers program is Linux also for hackers
is bird of prey a predator or a child of prey
in back to the future they don't need roads but do they at least need runways
if sonic is a werehog at night and a hedgehog during the day does sonic have bipolar disorder
the great way to explain what is the meaning of this is to get out a dictionary.

well theyve deindexed all my games

That can happen after an update. And just skimming, some of your projects might not be eliglible for indexing according to quality guidelines.

https://itch.freezing.top/docs/creators/quality-guidelines

but they never told me why and contacting support doesn't do anything

They never do tell. And they usually never answer indexing requests.

ive just gotten ticket numbers for all my emails

That's not what you wrote. But that's why I asked, because what you wrote seemed implausible.

so it's a deindexed ban but still I'm essentially not on the site. in any case there's no way I can get the game reindexed

You do not know that. I was not joking with the waiting time of over a month. Bigger games than your's get delisted and wait for weeks and weeks.

I looked at some of your project pages. Frankly, indexing them would not do anything. No one is going to search for your game's names and finding them accidentally in tags is not quite possible, since you barely have any tags at all. Your stupid stuff project is not even in the games category. It is "other".

And no they do not need runways, they can hover. Even boards can do that.

fair enough but I only need one game indexed I know the jokes are funny.


do squirrels collect nuts because theyre too sane
if paul is a pepperoni pizza is pepperoni acne
does zeus get offended when he realizes hezeus is another way of saying jesus
if you run system diagnostics on your computer and it says number five alive do you have a virus?
if Linux is for programmers and hackers program is Linux also for hackers
is bird of prey a predator or a child of prey
in back to the future they don't need roads but do they at least need runways
if sonic is a werehog at night and a hedgehog during the day does sonic have bipolar disorder
the great way to explain what is the meaning of this is to get out a dictionary.

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