# Discourse anti-spam bot going insane

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-anti-spam-bot-going-insane/391402>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [December 15, 2025, 11:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-anti-spam-bot-going-insane/391402 "2025-12-15T23:00:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2025, 11:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-anti-spam-bot-going-insane/391402/4 "2025-12-15T23:23:35Z")

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That’s what happens if the akismet key is invalid.

I was supplying Akismet to some clients until recently and failed to turn it off on (at least) one site and that’s what happened.. So they need to disable akisment and then get a working key or get the AI Spam plugin working.

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