Hi. The same problem. I'm reporting, cleaning and banning about 10+ such spam comments a day... every day... 365 days a year. And having just terrible headache on patch releases because of it feels like a bot total attack.
My suggestion to the itch development team: please make it possible to automatically redirect posts with links to the pending section. I really need this!
Benefits : it could wait for moderation there. And when it is checked I'll be able to deside what to do with it. And as a dev I won't miss smth important if community sends me link to video or Bug-report.
Just give me the possibility to automatically send posts containing links to pending section