It's surprising to me that a platform such as itch.io has done seemingly nothing until now to address the issue of spam in the comments. This issue has been going on for months now and legitimately makes players less safe. Those bad actors often post the same links over and over, something for someone who has been dealing in moderation for years now seems to be trivial to address by at least sending all of the comments that match certain string with obviously malicious link to /dev/null.
Of course, that shouldn't be the only solution to address it, commenters mentioned in this thread how this could be helped with and there are multiple ways this could be done. I see a game that daily receives at least 3 of such comments, today they started to use images with links that lead to malicious files.
This is urgent issue that affects many games, many creators and one that could use at the very least some kind of interim solution (while better and more long-term solution is being worked on) to help creators fight back against the spammers.
Really disappointing to see lack of visible addressal of this issue.