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And what you described did fit previously seen scammer activity. They repeatedly commented on the same games, with new accounts, hourly, daily, for weeks.

There is a huge difference between one/two lengthy comments with no hyperlinks per month and regular hourly spam. I'm merely pointing out the distinction and how the threads You linked mostly (if not only) refer to not spam per se, but malicious and misleading links embedded in comments. Which is a lot easier to block than a smart message filter and a lot less invasive than just shutting everyone out of commenting, for months, with no way of fixing it, getting verified or avoiding the spam filter.

"Likewise. And developers that shut down comment sections entirely thought so too. Screw comments, protecting users from spam is more important. "

I think You misunderstood my point. You said that other people can still comment and are doing so. Well, I can't. Nobody I know can. And that sort of privileged comment policy is whack. I am a user, I accepted the ToS and as such should be allowed to post comments. This sounds blown out of proportions, but I'm just trying to highlight the point. I can't see my comments, I can't seem to get them approved (aside from one), I can't even contact Support, because they just don't respond. No matter how I look at this, it's silly to have a community with the "community" part cut out (about 7 of my forum posts also ended up in limbo, for whatever reason).

"You claimed, it would affect games negatively. I disagreed and elaborated why I think so."
"Likewise. And developers that shut down comment sections entirely thought so too. Screw comments, protecting users from spam is more important. "

I still think that for games with limited playerbase, receiving feedback is important. Which is harder to do, when you can't post feedback. Not only does communication affect long-term attachment to a game/dev, it also allows for improvements based on feedback, since everyone has their own opinions. It's one thing if a dev chooses to disable comments, that's their call, but if they want feedback, but the website just shadowbans (cause that's what this essentially is at this point) people commenting, because they can't deal with spam in any reasonable way, then it will affect the game and its reception. Like imagine being a part of a project at work, joining group chat and being unable to post anything. Wouldn't that affect the project? And if You try doing anything about it, You just get ghosted.

"If there is no spam anymore they can try improving to get less false positives. They are working on it."

I don't know how many comments are made daily  on the site, but it's not about false positives. False positive is interpreting something that's not spam as spam. This thing is flagging EVERYTHING I POST. That's not the same thing. I can't access my comment history until the comments get approved (which they don't get), which means I'm essentially cut off from posting anything. And that sucks. And it's not "for a while", I made this account on August 12 2025, that's 10 months.

"The first moderator is the devloper."

What do You mean? Can a developer approve specific comments?

"Also, there were all sorts of spam. With obfuscated links, images. Links were just the most common one. It is trivial to circumvent a simple link ban and auto-filter."

Okay, but if that's the case and You Yourself said that other people can post, why can't some people join this exclusive group? What does one have to do to be allowed as a member of the community, when sending Support tickets does nothing, awaiting moderation does nothing, everything does nothing for months on end?

"Seems you are another person that thinks this is answered by staff. "

No, not really. I literally went for the "Questions" part of it, because Support, as I mentioned about four times already, DOES NOT RESPOND. I just wanted to understand what was going on and as soon as I got that information, I just left a note that in my opinion, since it's my question and my thread, it can be locked, as the question's been answered and I don't want to derail it by debating things neither I nor You have any control over. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy a discussion, but a fruitless one on the topic of poorly handled spam filter just feels like spam itself.

"Tell them how great it would be, if they would implement it, so that developers would see pending comments for moderation more easy. "

So if I get it right, the devs can actually see and approve comments? That's interesting. Cause this means a few things - either my comments are specifically ignored (which is curious) or are never seen, because either they get filtered out by a filter to the point where not even devs/mods see it awaiting approval, or I'm by default on some shadowban/spam filter list due to when my account was created or something, while others don't have to deal with this crap.

And trust me, I'd send anything, if I didn't already send 3 separate tickets regarding the issue that got ignored. Somehow I doubt it would be any different with suggestions, and it's not like that idea is so revolutionary nobody else suggested it before.

Still can't make more than a single quote, it just marks down the whole post after the first quote -.-