Sponsor section contains unrelated gambling & social-media-boost services
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Description
The "Big Sponsors" section on the Tiled homepage (https://www.mapeditor.org/) currently lists a large number of sponsors that are completely unrelated to game development, including:
- Online gambling / casino sites (Fun88, Parik24, BetPokies, AussiePokies, etc.)
- Instagram/TikTok follower-selling services (Buzzoid, Socialwick, Twicsy, SocialBoosting, etc.)
- Buy-YouTube-subscriber services
These listings significantly undermine the project's credibility and professionalism, particularly for developers encountering Tiled for the first time.
Impact
- First-time visitors may distrust the project or mistake it for an abandoned/spam-compromised site.
- The page disclaimer ("should not be taken as an endorsement") is not sufficient mitigation — the logos are still visually prominent.
- Several of these services may violate the Terms of Service of the platforms they target (Instagram, YouTube, TikTok).
Suggested Fix
- Review and enforce a sponsorship policy that excludes gambling, adult, and engagement-manipulation services.
- Consider requiring sponsors to be game-dev adjacent (engines, asset stores, tooling, hosting).
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reviewing the Tiled homepage at https://www.mapeditor.org/ and locating how the “Big Sponsors” section is maintained. Determine whether sponsor eligibility is documented and how listings are reviewed; the work is complete when an agreed sponsorship policy is applied and unrelated listings are handled consistently.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Domain
- content
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100