I don’t really want to have to turn off comments/posts on my project pages just because somehow Itch can’t prevent a brand-new account from posting the same scam link to two hundred different comment sections in five hours. And while it’s possible to delete those posts from my page after the fact, I’m not monitoring my page 24/7 - the malicious link could be available for hours before I see it or a moderator acts on a spam report.

It’d be nice if I could simply check a box to toggle things like ‘allow users to post links’ or even ‘allow new users to comment’ rather than disable posting entirely. because if I can’t get posts I lose one of my biggest avenues of actual project feedback and bug reports. And while preventing hyperlinks from working wouldn’t necessarily end the spam, having to put together broken-up links would hopefully force people to actually think for a second before following them.

There are far too many requests and comments on such features on itch.io for them to not be noticing and ignoring them. Like the more times I've tried to give them the benefit of the doubt I think that maybe they're trying to prevent some form of very toxic cultures to form on their platform the more it wouldn't really prevent that from happening it just seems really weird potentially having a button that says blocking or having settings that almost get you there but are too extreme for most people to use it.

Like blocking here isn't even a proper muting button, and you'll come across like you're intentionally doing something bad when you lock your comment sections, it just feels like there's something else going on that's not wanting them to push these moderation tools any further.

Also, I'm sorry to hear what you're going through, I've seen a lot of creators having to shut down feedbacks. Because of harassment.

 Especially in the dating sim visual novel community... younger players that were reported and never done anything about it would just return harassing developers.

Yeah, would be pretty nice. At least some basics, y'know. Blocking certain phrases, blocking links or completely new accounts, as you said. Had the same spam come in 6 times in the last 24 hours. Exactly same phrasing, exactly same link. Could have been solved easily in this instance, but instead I'm having to play whack-a-mole...