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I am tired. My collection of abuse of Itch's service has over 500 entries :-(

And there is not any sight of improvement of the situation. Not only are most scams on hacked accounts, - let that sink in for a moment - Itch takes too long to act upon reports. In the meantime the scam pages get indexed on actual internet search engines. Some even garner followers on Itch.

If people look for games, Itch ranks very high in the results. Just recently I found as result #1 the Steam page and #2 the scam page on Itch.

There are different kinds of scams or shall I say malware delivery schemes. One nasty bit I saw recently used a children's franchise to promise a game. I would very much like to know how long the acceptabe timeframe is, to remove crap like this after a report. And as a hint, there is a filehoster that does this within an hour. And google & co will take also a few hours or less to feature scams on their search results. So how long?

I guess the scammers use some loopholes, but still, something should be done. How many hacked accounts are acceptable? I would not beat that drum so much, if the scams were just posted on fake accounts. But seeing them on hacked accounts is heart breaking.

Oh, and if I look at scams and non-scams and their gain in followers, there obviously are many people mistrusting the scams. If you suspect a bad actor, please hit that report button and write to itch why you think the project is fishy. Their automated systems obviously did not catch it, otherwise it would not have been indexed, so they need to get reports on the scam. I really did see some scam indexed for months with people talking in comments about it being a scam.