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Spam attacks

A topic by Melinda2424 created 28 days ago Views: 235 Replies: 7
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For some time now, I've been having to ban accounts that leave spam on my game's page, with links of dubious origin. Today I banned one and two more appeared. What can I do?

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I am also having problems with this. For a while I got one such spam post per week, now it has increased to multiple per day. It should be easy for itch.io to filter such posts out, because the same post is made on the comments page of many games. If someone makes hundreds of posts in a very short time, all posts the same, they should be banned automatically, I'd say.

Please, itch, do something about this. If it continues like this I will have to close my comments section and I do not want to do that.

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I've already had about 20 messages this week. It's getting annoying to delete them all.

Yeah, same. I get a few spam comments every day. I've got a discussion forum on one game that only had one or two spam threads, but the normal comment section on the other game receives a lot of spam.

Same, every time I check a new comment notification lately, it's just spam. I've heard of people falling for these scams too. It'd be really nice for itch.io to be more proactive here to do something.

itch.io should just give us the option to reject all comments containing hyperlinks except for mods and devs. This spam situation is becoming extraordinarily annoying.

Folks, I initially hesitated to post this in case it gave the bots any ideas, but since I don't think the situation can get any worse, here's a tip: Switch to "community" mode and the bots will stop.

I know, but you lose the comments then. And Community mode also gets spam, though it is more rare.