Heya,

there are bots posting links to malware under each of our popular games multiple times per day. I report, ban and delete them every time, but they seem to have an automated account creation. Is there any way we can prevent this? It has become a legitimate timesink to delete up to 10 of these per day.

Same here! We are dealing with these on a daily basis and they are really frustrating.

Yeah this is happening in the message board section in one of my games too right now, had to squash it three times now and its going to be more than just a nuisance very quickly. That exact account is reponsible for one of them by the way.

Same, I'm getting around five a day. Just allow us to auto-block all links in comments.

Same. I've squashed dozens and they aren't going to stop. These accounts also seem to be uploading stolen games / trojans without anything stopping them. These accounts can message a hundred game comment sections in the span of an hour the exact same message!!

Hyperlinks in comments should be disabled until this is solved.

Came here to report, beg for help, see this thread is already up.
I realize Itch is very busy at the moment, and perpetually short-staffed, but there are a variety of solutions to this that seem like they would be fairly simple and fast to implement, test, and roll out. To my mind the best would be a toggle creators can switch on that blocks accounts younger than 6 months from posting links, or barring that, a toggle that only allows whitelisted users to post links.

Please DO NOT just take away links in comments, they are useful and needed for a variety of legitimate situations between creators and fans/customers. 

In this case the raid/spam is so braindead a simple text filter would work too, but that will ultimately just lead to a game of wack-a-mole.

Same.