Since we only have 10 tags available for tagging a game I wanted to verify I do not over use them according to the official guidelines. Hence, if there’s a classification like “No AI used”, “Multiplayer” certain tags get implicitly added to the game. I thought the same applies to NFSW content as there is a switch to classify a game as mature.
Therefore I removed the tags: adult, NFSW, erotic from my game to verify where it appears eg. if I need to manually add these tags or not. But instead the game just got de-indexed while being index and discoverable before.
I suppose there is some automated moderation tool at work here which tries to prevent adult content from appear in the regular search / discovery if someone tries to be funky with their tags? However I did not unchecked the “Has sensitive content — This project is not suited for minors or the workplace” box during this process.
After re-adding said tags the game still was not re-indexed yet so I reached out to the support a few days back with no response so far.
Also I am not sure if this classifies as bug or the automated tools did their job right. In anyway I would appreciate to know which tags “Has sensitive content” implicitly adds to a game so I can avoid using them twice. Like “No generative AI was used” will add the “No AI” Tag to the game and classify it as multiplayer will add the “multiplayer” tag etc.
In addition I verified to comply with the NFSW guidelines on this platform at least twice. Which explicitly states to use the “Has sensitive content” switch which is still ticked. So it came as a surprise to me removing tags resulted in de-indexing.
I really did not meant to act in bad faith here just to use the tags wisely. Nor am I in the knowing to ever violated any guidelines in other ways.
Kind regards,
Night Crawler from Wicked Gargoyle Productions