The argument has become entirely ideological rather than practical, relying on emotional rhetoric instead of workable solutions.
- Regional adjustments exist across the industry. Bringing up third world economies as a permanent roadblock ignores standard platform mechanics like regionalized deposit scaling, exactly as storefronts already do with regional pricing. There is zero reason why a security deposit or verification hurdle could not be adjusted relative to local purchasing power.
- Expecting an independent store to hire a human army is unrealistic. Suggesting that Itch simply employ an army of paid moderators to manually review hundreds of thousands of zero cost, unmoderated submissions is financially absurd. No platform on the internet operates manual review at scale without technical barriers at entry.
- Demanding quality while rejecting mechanisms is a contradiction. You acknowledge that Itch needs tighter upload rules and quality standards, yet you reject every actual mechanism required to enforce them. Rules do not apply themselves through goodwill. Without submission caps, page standards, verification queues, or security deposits, guidelines remain meaningless text while noise continues to flood the feed.