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title: "Spam management for Netlify Forms | Netlify"
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source: "https://www.netlify.com/blog/2019/05/21/spam-management-for-netlify-forms/"
last_updated: "2026-08-29T23:59:01.000Z"
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Not long ago, we [improved Netlify Forms spam filtering using Akismet](https://www.netlify.com/blog/2019/02/12/improved-netlify-forms-spam-filtering-using-akismet/), which significantly enhanced our capability of detecting spam. But this has been a hidden power that you can’t manage. Wouldn’t it be lovely if you had more control?

## User interface additions

Without changing too much of the current UI, we introduced a dropdown menu to filter the submissions list by state (verified/spam) and a button to change the state of selected submissions.

We’ll keep iterating on the UI to add functionalities pragmatically. But for now, enjoy spam!

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### Tags

-   [spam](/blog/tags/spam/)
-   [form handling](/blog/tags/form-handling/)
-   [spam](/blog/tags/spam/)

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