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This is an itch problem, but it’s also a dev problem. Devs already have tools for dealing with spam in their comment sections, they just have to use them. Devs get notified when somebody posts in their comment sections. Devs can delete comments. Devs can even ban commenters.

Edit: you can also report directly to Github. If you see a scammer website that look like bob.github.io/something/, that means that bob is the name of a github user account. You can then go to https://github.com/bob and press the block/report button to report the user account to Github. It’s usually more effective to take down the scammer’s website than to report each of the scammer’s posts individually.

i’m aware folks can report repositories on github, and that it is more effective as it renders the comments useless — i have built some tooling around this — but github is overwhelmed with other issues.

i don’t agree that devs have the responsibility to monitor and deal with a behavior that affects multiple games. i see it as a platform issue, and i fail to see any interest from itch.io to answer it.