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That's a good remark, and I am actually happy about users posting links to their collections in comments, as I know that during the delisting of my games (they are listed again now) people found them through collections.

However, I am talking about a bot which every week creates a new account and then posts a message as I specify above as a comment for a whole bunch of games. I have seen that three times for this game, in three weeks, but someone told me that this has been going on for a year. There is a quick check that one can do: click on the user name and you will see all their posts. Then you will notice that they have posted the same message with the same link at dozens of games.

Itch should be able to automatically filter these out, I'd say. A user posting the same comment for a large number of games should not be allowed. A user posting hundreds of messages within minutes should not be allowed. A user posting links to suspicious sites should not be allowed. But evidently Itch is not doing anything about it, other than banning the user when they are informed about it. But that can take a few hours.

So I am mainly saying: be careful about links to software. Don't run such software without being pretty certain that it is what you expect it to be.