# Integration with Smyte for Spam protection
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/integration-with-smyte-for-spam-protection/29089
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [May 21, 2015, 6:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/integration-with-smyte-for-spam-protection/29089 "2015-05-21T18:50:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@justin\_gordon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/justin_gordon)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2015, 6:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/integration-with-smyte-for-spam-protection/29089/1 "2015-05-21T18:50:17Z")
I’m working with Smyte and Pete Hunt on integrating their spam protection system with discourse. One of my sites keeps getting the same darn spammer over and over again. Time to fix this!
Here’s a couple doc links:
- [http://docs.smyte.com/v2/docs/getting-started#sending-actions](http://docs.smyte.com/v2/docs/getting-started#sending-actions)
- [http://docs.smyte.com/v2/docs/examples](http://docs.smyte.com/v2/docs/examples)
We’re going to open source the integration.
Any tips?
I’m looking for documentation on adding triggers or other Discourse extensions.
I found this thread:
[https://meta.discourse.org/t/making-discourse-more-pluggable-by-adding-more-callback-triggers/25579/18](https://meta.discourse.org/t/making-discourse-more-pluggable-by-adding-more-callback-triggers/25579/18)
@sam? @eviltrout? @codinghorror?
I’ll put this up on github for a PR, if that’s the right way to add this.
Thanks,
Justin
PS: I absolutely love discourse at [http://forum.railsonmaui.com](http://forum.railsonmaui.com). The only issue is that it’s made me a bit lazy about creating full length blog articles!
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2015, 10:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/integration-with-smyte-for-spam-protection/29089/2 "2015-05-21T22:56:06Z")
Why not just start by forking the akismet plugin and following the same patterns it already follows?
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2015, 12:27am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/integration-with-smyte-for-spam-protection/29089/3 "2015-05-22T00:27:32Z")
Hmm, are you using the Akismet plugin we ship? If not you should be.
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### Author:  [@justin\_gordon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/justin_gordon)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2015, 12:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/integration-with-smyte-for-spam-protection/29089/4 "2015-05-22T00:53:48Z")
@codinghorror I’m not.
I’m using the default docker container and I got an upgrade message on the container.
If I upgrade the container, does it include the akismet plugin?
Or do I need to follow this: [Install plugins on a self-hosted site - #18](https://meta.discourse.org/t/install-a-plugin/19157/18)
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2015, 6:35am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/integration-with-smyte-for-spam-protection/29089/5 "2015-05-22T06:35:37Z")
You want those plugin install instructions, so “No; Yes”.
Not everyone wants or needs posts on their forum shipped to a 3rd party.
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### Author:  [@justin\_gordon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/justin_gordon)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2015, 7:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/integration-with-smyte-for-spam-protection/29089/6 "2015-06-10T19:05:06Z")
@codinghorror we’re going to look into trying out akismet.
On [http://www.talksurf.com](http://www.talksurf.com):
Is there any worth in figuring out how the same spambot keeps hitting my website? It would be great if there’s somethin discourse to not even require a plugin to block this.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2015, 7:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/integration-with-smyte-for-spam-protection/29089/7 "2015-06-10T19:08:19Z")
You need to get Akismet hooked up, it does this automatically. These are 100% human spammers.
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### Author:  [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2015, 8:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/integration-with-smyte-for-spam-protection/29089/8 "2015-06-10T20:30:26Z")
Ah, it’s the notorious Kitchen Spammers!
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### Author:  [@justin\_gordon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/justin_gordon)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2015, 9:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/integration-with-smyte-for-spam-protection/29089/9 "2015-06-28T21:37:07Z")
Akismet Rocks! Thanks to all! @dylangrafmyre, @codinghorror
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### Author:  [@chapoi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chapoi)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2025, 11:35am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/integration-with-smyte-for-spam-protection/29089/10 "2025-12-04T11:35:56Z")