# How to properly identify a spammer? **URL:** \ **Category:** Community Building\ **Created:** [May 25, 2022, 6:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-properly-identify-a-spammer/228103 "2022-05-25T18:30:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3
**Author:** ![itsbhanusharma](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/itsbhanusharma/32/180717_2.png) [@itsbhanusharma](https://meta.discourse.org/u/itsbhanusharma)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2022, 7:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-properly-identify-a-spammer/228103/3 "2022-05-25T19:04:57Z")
When we were getting hammered with spam, we took the nuclear option to require approval for all new posts. 10 staff members worked round the clock to manually clear the review queue of spam. It took about a month for it all to die down. The entire community had been really helpful with this. --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-properly-identify-a-spammer/228103)._