# Spam Posts **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/spam-posts/303182 **Category:** Support **Created:** [April 10, 2024, 4:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/spam-posts/303182 "2024-04-10T04:39:19Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 2
### Author: ![traceymoko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/traceymoko/32/483235_2.png) [@traceymoko](https://meta.discourse.org/u/traceymoko) #### Post date: [April 10, 2024, 4:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/spam-posts/303182/2 "2024-04-10T04:44:31Z")
Here are some options to help deal with spam: ## Manually approve all new posts or new users You can make it so that posts have to be approved before they are public (`approve post count`), or so that users have to be approved (`must approve users`) /admin/site\_settings/category/all\_results?filter=Approve ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/9/f/b/9fb78d468c9b1af6051cf95ae84215df75aee010.png) ## Akismet Do you have the Akismet plugin installed? Setting this up can help with spam. > [@Discourse Akismet](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-akismet-anti-spam/109337): > > discourse2Summary Discourse Akismet allows you to fight spam with [Akismet](https://akismet.com/), an algorithm used by millions of sites to combat spam automatically.hammer_and_wrenchRepository Link [https://github.com/discourse/discourse-akismet](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-akismet)open_bookInstall Guide [How to install plugins in Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/install-plugins-in-discourse/19157)Features What does it do? Akismet helps keep your site free of spam by automatically scanning all posts from new users. Scanned posts that Akismet flags as spam are immediately removed f… ## Watched Words You could also make so that posts with certain words will be automatically blocked, flagged or require approval, in Watched Words /admin/customize/watched\_words ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/1/1/5/115edcf6943cc2e13f37541867ffe8553577c3cd.png) --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/spam-posts/303182)._