# \#akismet **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/tag/akismet/64.md [Latest](https://meta.discourse.org/latest.md) · [Categories](https://meta.discourse.org/categories.md) · [Tags](https://meta.discourse.org/tags.md) --- ## [Discourse AI spam detection replaces Akismet plugin](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-ai-spam-detection-replaces-akismet-plugin/354602)
**Author:** [@Saif](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Saif)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [November 4, 2025, 3:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-ai-spam-detection-replaces-akismet-plugin/354602 "2025-11-04T03:00:53Z")
Starting today, we will be removing the Discourse Akismet plugin and will instead enable Discourse AI - Spam detection by default for hosted customers on Pro and Standard plans. Why are we making this change? Over the p… --- ## [Discourse Akismet plugin - cost & effectiveness](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-akismet-plugin-cost-effectiveness/337835)
**Author:** [@hmmmnotsure](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hmmmnotsure)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [November 26, 2024, 4:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-akismet-plugin-cost-effectiveness/337835 "2024-11-26T16:31:20Z")
I see Discourse Akismet (spam filter) costs about $500 a year. Apart from this, do they charge anything more? Also, does the product catch spam before it is visible on the community? How does it work? --- ## [Any feedback on Akismet?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/any-feedback-on-akismet/335787)
**Author:** [@hmmmnotsure](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hmmmnotsure)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [November 22, 2024, 10:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/any-feedback-on-akismet/335787 "2024-11-22T22:44:41Z")
My site was under a massive spam attack recently. Thanks to @Moin & @HAWK for their quick help, I was able to control the spam to a huge extent. Now, I’m seriously considering Akismet plugin so my weekends can be peacef… --- ## [Aksimet Fails to Stop Spam Attack](https://meta.discourse.org/t/aksimet-fails-to-stop-spam-attack/330839)
**Author:** [@kirupa](https://meta.discourse.org/u/kirupa)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [October 15, 2024, 3:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/aksimet-fails-to-stop-spam-attack/330839 "2024-10-15T15:53:48Z")
Hi everyone - on the IDX Community, we have the Akismet plugin enabled, but it is failing to stop a spam attack: I have manually deleted (and flagged/blocked) over 1000 posts over the past few hours. The posts do see… --- ## [Issue with Akismet Flagged Posts Not Displaying in Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issue-with-akismet-flagged-posts-not-displaying-in-discourse/312507)
**Author:** [@shengkeepitcool](https://meta.discourse.org/u/shengkeepitcool)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [June 19, 2024, 2:38am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issue-with-akismet-flagged-posts-not-displaying-in-discourse/312507 "2024-06-19T02:38:14Z")
Hi everyone, I am using Discourse version 3.3.0.beta3-dev and Akismet version 0.1.0. I’ve noticed that posts flagged by Akismet are not being displayed. Has anyone encountered this issue before, or does anyone have an… --- ## [Proposed: allow moderators to silence, not delete users flagged by akismet](https://meta.discourse.org/t/proposed-allow-moderators-to-silence-not-delete-users-flagged-by-akismet/306322)
**Author:** [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [May 6, 2024, 4:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/proposed-allow-moderators-to-silence-not-delete-users-flagged-by-akismet/306322 "2024-05-06T16:24:18Z")
This is a request for comments! Would this help you improve your moderator workflow? Anything I am missing or getting wrong? Currently, if a new user signs up and is flagged by Akismet as a spammer, the only options ava… --- ## [Akismet and other plugins not working as expected](https://meta.discourse.org/t/akismet-and-other-plugins-not-working-as-expected/147032)
**Author:** [@justin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/justin)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [April 6, 2020, 6:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/akismet-and-other-plugins-not-working-as-expected/147032 "2020-04-06T18:50:33Z")
I have installed the Akismet and Events plugins and they show up on the Plugins page and the page says they’re enabled: But I don’t think they’re working. I don’t see the expected modifications to either the Review m… --- ## [Akismet Anti Spam Plugin - Issue in installation](https://meta.discourse.org/t/akismet-anti-spam-plugin-issue-in-installation/304057)
**Author:** [@Aditya\_Shevle](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Aditya_Shevle)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [April 16, 2024, 8:57am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/akismet-anti-spam-plugin-issue-in-installation/304057 "2024-04-16T08:57:04Z")
Hi, I have manually installed “Akismet Anti Spam Plugin”. But its not getting installed in the discourse, Plugin Name: Akismet Plugin Link: GitHub - discourse/discourse-akismet: give spam a whoopin · GitHub How to in… --- ## [Review New User Needs Better Button Labels](https://meta.discourse.org/t/review-new-user-needs-better-button-labels/299513)
**Author:** [@Sky020](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Sky020)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [March 25, 2024, 8:33am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/review-new-user-needs-better-button-labels/299513 "2024-03-25T08:33:17Z")
Hello there, I am not sure if this is purely related to the akismet plugin. So, sorry if this is the wrong place to present this feedback. When a new user’s profile is flagged for review, the options are not presented … --- ## [How to enable the Akismet privacy notification?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-enable-the-akismet-privacy-notification/299054)
**Author:** [@Gavin\_Hudson](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Gavin_Hudson)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [March 22, 2024, 4:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-enable-the-akismet-privacy-notification/299054 "2024-03-22T16:07:24Z")
The Akismet GDPR page says you can enable a privacy notification. However, I don’t know where I can enable this. I don’t see it in the Akismet settings. When Akismet is enabled on your site, only the personal data need… --- ## [Discard Akismet flagged post](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discard-akismet-flagged-post/300023)
**Author:** [@magdmartin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/magdmartin)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [March 19, 2024, 10:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discard-akismet-flagged-post/300023 "2024-03-19T22:27:31Z")
As a discourse moderator, I would like to know how what I should do in the following scenario One of our approved forum users has had some of their posts flagged as potential spam by Akismet. I am not aware of the messa… --- ## [Timeline shows post 1/0 when the first post is queued for review](https://meta.discourse.org/t/timeline-shows-post-1-0-when-the-first-post-is-queued-for-review/277740)
**Author:** [@boston2029](https://meta.discourse.org/u/boston2029)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [September 10, 2023, 10:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/timeline-shows-post-1-0-when-the-first-post-is-queued-for-review/277740 "2023-09-10T22:41:37Z")
My post got held for review as soon as I posted it, which resulted in this weird 1/0 glitch: Not major, but maybe could be tweaked? --- ## [Error while trying to remove the Anti-Spam Akismet plugin](https://meta.discourse.org/t/error-while-trying-to-remove-the-anti-spam-akismet-plugin/258370)
**Author:** [@nono-lqdn](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nono-lqdn)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [March 31, 2023, 2:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/error-while-trying-to-remove-the-anti-spam-akismet-plugin/258370 "2023-03-31T14:40:11Z")
Hello world, I’ve been trying to remove the Akismet anti spam plugin, because it seems that it’s not RGPD compliant ; the analysis of data in overseas servers seems to be, per our legal team, illegal in regards to the R… --- ## [Akismet vs NetEase?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/akismet-vs-netease/258505)
**Author:** [@ganncamp](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ganncamp)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [March 17, 2023, 4:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/akismet-vs-netease/258505 "2023-03-17T16:35:23Z")
I just rejected another Akismet spam flag (the updated UI looks nice, BTW) and afterward clicked through just to see - once again - if there was anything I could tune to make detection better: Once in the settings I s… --- ## [Akismet | Question about how it works](https://meta.discourse.org/t/akismet-question-about-how-it-works/251964)
**Author:** [@AndresGomez](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AndresGomez)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [January 17, 2023, 6:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/akismet-question-about-how-it-works/251964 "2023-01-17T18:09:45Z")
Hello, everyone. My name is Andres Gomez, and I work on the SmartThings Developer Support team, so I am also an admin in the SmartThings Community . As far as I am concerned, Akismet is a tool that automatically bans p… --- ## [Why can't I override the robot?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-cant-i-override-the-robot/253488)
**Author:** [@ganncamp](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ganncamp)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [February 9, 2023, 6:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-cant-i-override-the-robot/253488 "2023-02-09T18:22:11Z")
I have global admin rights on our instance. I came in this morning to this post in one of my threads: Note the user’s name: https://evil.com and the username: hackeryajemaa I tried to flag the post as a prelude to … --- ## [Akismet and Discourse default spam detection behavior on the review page](https://meta.discourse.org/t/akismet-and-discourse-default-spam-detection-behavior-on-the-review-page/244491)
**Author:** [@Canapin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Canapin)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [November 6, 2022, 12:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/akismet-and-discourse-default-spam-detection-behavior-on-the-review-page/244491 "2022-11-06T12:04:17Z")
I very often (almost every day) encounter this: On the second user deletion, there is this message: An error occurred: The requested URL or resource could not be found. Because the reviewed post belongs … --- ## [Automatically add staff notice about duplicate on the internet?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-add-staff-notice-about-duplicate-on-the-internet/229432)
**Author:** [@Arjan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Arjan)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [August 13, 2022, 11:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-add-staff-notice-about-duplicate-on-the-internet/229432 "2022-08-13T11:53:53Z")
The Akismet spam filter is quite good at finding duplicate posts between the Docker forum and, say, Stack Exchange sites (mostly Stack Overflow), GitHub and Reddit. These posts end up in review, but then don’t reveal whe… --- ## [Add Google Perspective + Akismet to Chat](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-google-perspective-akismet-to-chat/234875)
**Author:** [@darkpixlz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/darkpixlz)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [August 3, 2022, 12:56am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-google-perspective-akismet-to-chat/234875 "2022-08-03T00:56:13Z")
Right now you can completely bypass Akismet and Perspective by going to the chat. You can already do most text features (watched words, linked words, flagging) in the chat, these should be added to prevent toxic behavio… --- ## [Akismet filter misses so frequently; how to disable/improve?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/akismet-filter-misses-so-frequently-how-to-disable-improve/215935)
**Author:** [@mbauman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mbauman)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [June 6, 2022, 3:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/akismet-filter-misses-so-frequently-how-to-disable-improve/215935 "2022-06-06T15:57:05Z")
Our system user has the resounding approval rate of 94% :-1:. The akismet filter just completely misses on a lot of technical posts like this one — that’s a post by a TL1 user who has been around for 8 months with no ou… --- ## [How to debug Akismet plugin?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-debug-akismet-plugin/220122)
**Author:** [@xyzzy](https://meta.discourse.org/u/xyzzy)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [March 15, 2022, 9:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-debug-akismet-plugin/220122 "2022-03-15T21:51:27Z")
Hi all, I’ve successfully installed Akismet following the instructions at https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-akismet-anti-spam/109337 and am trying to test it out. After each test post, I’m manually triggering the … --- ## [Flag modal has an Akismet message](https://meta.discourse.org/t/flag-modal-has-an-akismet-message/205583)
**Author:** [@ondrej](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ondrej)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [October 18, 2021, 10:54am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/flag-modal-has-an-akismet-message/205583 "2021-10-18T10:54:07Z")
Hi, Just noticed this by pressing the flag icon accidentally. All posts seem to have an incorrect message displayed upon opening the flag modal. --- ## [Akismet spam detection plugin, do I need an Akismet API key?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/akismet-spam-detection-plugin-do-i-need-an-akismet-api-key/165603)
**Author:** [@Vijay\_Vantipalli](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Vijay_Vantipalli)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [September 29, 2020, 5:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/akismet-spam-detection-plugin-do-i-need-an-akismet-api-key/165603 "2020-09-29T05:09:03Z")
Hi Team I am looking to use akismet spam detection plugin for my discourse instance. But when trying to integrate or use it. Its asking for API key of akismet for integration. Do we need to purchase a plan with akismet … --- ## [Akismet: Use for existing posts?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/akismet-use-for-existing-posts/163910)
**Author:** [@Canapin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Canapin)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [September 15, 2020, 2:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/akismet-use-for-existing-posts/163910 "2020-09-15T14:25:39Z")
Hi, a quick question. Do you think Discourse Akismet can somehow be used to detect spam in the existing posts? I’m importing a forum with a lot of spam and I can’t clean it up all before importing to Discourse. --- ## [WP Discourse Posts Flagged by Akismet](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wp-discourse-posts-flagged-by-akismet/162260)
**Author:** [@rvroman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rvroman)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [August 31, 2020, 10:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wp-discourse-posts-flagged-by-akismet/162260 "2020-08-31T22:07:36Z")
I’m not sure what is routinely causing Akismet to flag posts of this type, but the only posts that are getting flagged as possible SPAM are those that are getting published through the WP Discourse plugin from our Wordpr… --- ## [Improvement to "Akismet has temporarily hidden your post" email](https://meta.discourse.org/t/improvement-to-akismet-has-temporarily-hidden-your-post-email/142279)
**Author:** [@jsha](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jsha)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [February 24, 2020, 7:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/improvement-to-akismet-has-temporarily-hidden-your-post-email/142279 "2020-02-24T19:27:54Z")
I commonly find myself in this situation at https://community.letsencrypt.org/: Get on the forum for the day, see I have a PM, and no flags to review. Click on the PM. The thread started with an automated email from me… --- ## [This user doesn’t have enough information to be reviewed by Akismet](https://meta.discourse.org/t/this-user-doesn-t-have-enough-information-to-be-reviewed-by-akismet/133919)
**Author:** [@Slowhand](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Slowhand)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [November 25, 2019, 9:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/this-user-doesn-t-have-enough-information-to-be-reviewed-by-akismet/133919 "2019-11-25T21:53:19Z")
In the Admin Dashboard, under Users: One of our Moderators has a question mark by his Moderator badge. Hovering over it, it says: “This user doesn’t have enough information to be reviewed by Akismet.” Wasn’t like this y… --- ## [New Akismet Install not on Hamburger Menu](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-akismet-install-not-on-hamburger-menu/131259)
**Author:** [@tisawyer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tisawyer)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [October 17, 2019, 7:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-akismet-install-not-on-hamburger-menu/131259 "2019-10-17T19:20:18Z")
I’ve installed the Akismet plugin but it’s not on the Hamburger Menu. A screen capture of the settings is attached and I think they are fine. Could the Akismet key be the problem and is there some way to test if it’s val… --- ## [What happened to post stomped by Akismet?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-happened-to-post-stomped-by-akismet/119816)
**Author:** [@Jay\_Allen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jay_Allen)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [June 11, 2019, 5:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-happened-to-post-stomped-by-akismet/119816 "2019-06-11T17:37:12Z")
Hi all, A TL0 user posted something with two links in it a week ago. It was approved by an admin the same day. However, the user then got a notice that the post was flagged by Akismet, and it still can’t be seen anywher… --- ## [Discourse-akismet updated hanging](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-akismet-updated-hanging/51884)
**Author:** [@glynhudson](https://meta.discourse.org/u/glynhudson)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [March 21, 2019, 2:07am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-akismet-updated-hanging/51884 "2019-03-21T02:07:01Z")
Just tried to update discourse-akismet, update has frozen for a couple of hrs (and counting) at $ bundle exec rake assets:precompile Purging temp files Any ideas? Should I restart the update? [Next page](https://meta.discourse.org/tag/akismet/64.md?match_all_tags=true&page=1&tags%5B%5D=akismet)