# Temporarily Disable Akismet
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/temporarily-disable-akismet/65590
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** akismet
**Created:** [July 4, 2017, 2:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/temporarily-disable-akismet/65590 "2017-07-04T14:50:36Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Martin\_Cash](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Martin_Cash)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2017, 2:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/temporarily-disable-akismet/65590/1 "2017-07-04T14:50:36Z")
Is there a way to disable the Akismet plugin or a way to loosen the rules for flagging content as we ramp up new members from our customer base? I only get false positives and some new member’s first experience with us is getting a wrist slap. I changed the email to be a bit more friendly, but I’ve had one person worried that they were breaking the rules and PMd me.
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### Author:  [@eviltrout](https://meta.discourse.org/u/eviltrout)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2017, 2:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/temporarily-disable-akismet/65590/2 "2017-07-04T14:58:47Z")
You can change the `skip akismet trust level` site setting to 0, and it won’t use akismet for anything.
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### Author:  [@Martin\_Cash](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Martin_Cash)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2017, 2:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/temporarily-disable-akismet/65590/3 "2017-07-05T14:07:13Z")
After changing this setting, I did get another Askismet approval this morning.
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### Author:  [@eviltrout](https://meta.discourse.org/u/eviltrout)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2017, 3:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/temporarily-disable-akismet/65590/4 "2017-07-05T15:01:08Z")
Are you certain it was Akismet? We also queue posts that look suspicious for other reasons. In particular if a user copies and pastes a post we often flag that as potential spam.
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### Author:  [@Martin\_Cash](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Martin_Cash)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2017, 3:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/temporarily-disable-akismet/65590/5 "2017-07-05T15:07:43Z")
Yes, it was the Akismet notification. I looked closer and did notice that I got this notification yesterday, the same day I changed that setting…maybe the notification was a bit just delayed?
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### Author:  [@eviltrout](https://meta.discourse.org/u/eviltrout)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2017, 3:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/temporarily-disable-akismet/65590/6 "2017-07-05T15:12:13Z")
It could very well be that. Akismet processing is done asynchronously and it’s possible things were a little backlogged. Please report back if it happens again.
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2024, 12:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/temporarily-disable-akismet/65590/7 "2024-06-08T12:44:37Z")
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