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redonihunter14 days ago

I am not sure to which post you are replying to. It reads like a reply. But your grammar can be read differently.

Anyway, this is thread is mostly a warning. An advice to be careful. Not a discussion how to solve the situation.

Solving this on the cheap and without changing some core functionality of Itch will be kinda hard. The problem is, whatever is done, the criminals will adapt or change strategies. The most recent trend is fake comments with links to malware. You might have seen complaint threads about them. 

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Kador14 days ago

Yeah. Do you think it's worth starting up a discussion about possible ways of how to solve the situation?

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redonihunter14 days ago

I have mixed feelings.

Any solution in such a discussion will very likely have one of the following issues:

It costs too much money. It requires changes to Itch that contradict what Itch wants to be. It is circumventable. It only works on a sunny day.

The thing is, the criminals work fulltime on abusing Itch. I guess they are one of those scam farms that also do phone call scams and other criminal activity. Short of bringing them into jail for good, they will continue to find ways to abuse Itch and it's users. 

Maybe minor details can have a workable solution that could be suggested to Itch (talking about in community is not a suggestion. They have a suggestion button to give them suggestions. Threads in community are idle talk.)

And we should consider that hopefully they did ask professionals, so maybe they already eliminate most of the threats and what we see is the tiny trickle flying under the radar. Itch does not talk about things like this in general, so maybe whatever is suggested is already implemented but does not work as good as it sounds in theory. I guess a lot of the complaint thread about not being indexed are side effects from the fight against malware.

Example of what has been done in the past for a particular problem:

Fake download buttons. I have not seen one since they highlight external links.

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Kador14 days ago

Good news about the fake download buttons.

But that's a good point, not making changes to Itch that contradict what Itch wants to be. I did consider if Steam has anywhere near the same problem and why they don't. I'd assume it is partly due to an additional wall of exclusivity, whether that be a registration fee or more scrutiny placed upon content etc. ( And being riiiich of course.) Implementations like that would shut the door on many amtuer developers, changing the nature of the platform as you say. Even if it could be afforded.

Hmmmmmmm 🤔

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