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IsThereAnyDeal / Everywhere

IsThereAnyDeal Everywhere adds a quick price overview for each link to Steam store it can find on a page.
https://everywhere.isthereanydeal.com/
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Please Stop "Self"-Censoring your bundles and Code proper Verification... #3

Open Black3ird opened 4 years ago

Black3ird commented 4 years ago

Dear Sir,

First of all thank you dearly for the very existence of ITAD. But lately more and more I'm forced to use external sources instead of yours because of small things going on within ITAD, and now including CensorShip (what?). I was trying to decide on a bundle and normally visited your site to find at https://isthereanydeal.com/specials/#/options:pending;/filter:id/8246 this:

Due to the Adult Content (nudity) of 2 titles in this bundle, they are EXCLUDED from being listed. If of LEGAL AGE, please visit Indie Gala for details on these titles.

This was done sadly by an so called Official Mod so I have to assume you told him to do so instead of him taking unneeded initiative. Even if users can edit such titles (thanks for that), it's bound to be "Deleted" by the very mod that put that restriction there without any appeals even if user would be right. Since there are also No Guidelines that will rule both Mods and Users, Mods can get away with anything they want, even if with wrong entries.

First of all, Majority of your users (so customers) are Legal of Age because otherwise they can't find funds to sustain the cost of games offered through your site. So it's this mod "Punishing" Adults in favor of minority in number teens and alike. What was expected is; you implement a system or just basic question of "How Old are You?" at the account page and make it Mandatory to be set (can also be checked by internationally accepted quizzes that only adults can answer). After user sets (or passes) this age entry, ALL of bundle contents is to be revealed. For minors (after your coding) NSFW entries would be hidden due to their age setting.

This is How it's done on almost all of the sites you can find on Internet, starting with the very biggest Store your site depends; Steam by Valve. Once you set age, it uses as a "If" statement in coding to decide if certain game should be shown to you or not as you can test it via https://store.steampowered.com/app/492720/Tropico_6/ (on unlogged browser) which asks it directly. Instead this RickTexas guy decides for all of us what we're able to see or not (Censorship) and that information is LOST once bundle is removed because more and more sites are un-achievable by means of https://archive.org/web/ and others.

Your site is useful "As Long As" it retains undisputable True historical information about the deals because there are many other sites that does the same Price Aggretation but with-out the correct price histories or bundle entries. Small things like this Age-oversight-Censorship is causing your older users like myself to seek alternatives (like Barter vg) and make use of them instead while drifting further and further away from you, and one day those alternatives to become our main to-go site.

Sorry for any of the things that you may misunderstood yet this is friendly suggestion for ITAD to be its better-self so that it can remain at the top of Price Aggregators instead of need for others.

Best Regards.

GreenMan36 commented 1 year ago

This isn't directly related to ITAD Everywhere.