Hello, and I wish you all a Happy New Year.
This spam issue seems to have persisted for a very long time, yet itch.io doesn't appear to have any intention of taking active measures to address it.
I honestly cannot understand how spammers are managing to bypass the pending queue and post comments containing scam links.
Ever since I realized that actual users are falling victim to these scams, I've been under considerable stress.
I couldn't just sit and wait for itch.io to act anymore, so I developed a simple Python-based bot to manage comments myself.
It includes a whitelist feature, so safe URLs (like YouTube links) won't be deleted.
I hope this tool helps other developers facing the same frustration.
https://gist.github.com/StudioGinkgo/3c1b350a00121dde54817aef2f2b71d1