Okay, that might sound rude, cause people, effort and stuff, but this feels so spaghetti, I can't help but chuckle. I guess I'll live a few more months, though any sort of verification at any point would be nice. Gating comments behind some spam filter negatively affects games' popularity and thus potential profits.
Have a nice day :)
You know what else impacts the site's popularity?
Commebt sections that are filled with botspam, sockpuppeting and malicious links.
Itch.io *has to* take steps to filter these things out, and usibg automated filters is industry standard for a reason.
The problems here are a) itch.io's filters being a bit shit and b) itch.io not providing human review of automated decisions in a timely fashion.