Would it be at all feasible to automatically hide/block giveaways for titles tagged as "Adult Only Sexual Content" on Steam?

I have no interest in those, and I've been manually hiding them when they appear as giveaways, but there seems to be a steady stream of new ones.

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I don't know how I missed that -- thanks!

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Be mindful of one thing though: a lot of games that are tagged on Steam as "adult" will also be hidden.

I had the option activated as soon as it was available and never looked back until someone told me "hey I see you have The Last of Us Part II on your wishlist and you are on my whitelist but you didn't enter my giveaway"... and yes you guessed it, when I checked the "mature games" that were currently running and being hidden, TLOUII was among them... for whatever reason, nested between Hentai Whatever and Sex something or other.

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The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Backroom Survival Horror Game is hidden now too - and it has no adult or nudity tag, so I guess it's being hidden because of the Mature Content age gate.

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Thanks for pointing it out, it shouldn't be on the list and it's been removed it. As for The Last of Us Part II, it was removed months ago after first being reported.

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Hi cg, what is the cut-off for the mature games category, or what's required to be on the list?
Currently I among the games I see hidden there are a lot of the usual hentai games or "sex whatever" games, but Leisure Suit Larry - Wet Dreams Dry Twice and My Lovely Wife are there too. There are clearly pro and contra arguments for both being on the list, a level of sexuality clearly an integral part of these games, but not the sole focus.

edit: MAGLAM LORD also looks questionable based on the tags

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Hi, it's automated and looking for an 18+ rating and certain descriptors related to sex and nudity. It's been working fairly well the past few months, and it's flagged about 9,400 games to date. Aside from a few obvious mistakes and manual corrections, there's a grey zone of games that can be argued either way like you mentioned. I don't mind going either way on those depending on what the community prefers.

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Thanks for the explanation

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Cool. Thanks cg.
Still kinda sucks that you'd have to do it one by one though...

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Steam is pretty funny when it comes to that. There are games with gore galore that are totally fine... but some games have been tagged as mature and that's all there is to it

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Great question. I'm tired of seeing ugly porn games here all the time

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They disappear when you win them.

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