# Staticman fighting spam

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**Created:** [December 2, 2018, 3:08am UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/staticman-fighting-spam/2388 "2018-12-02T03:08:36Z")\
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I know this is an old thread, but I came looking for answers, then found some, so…

akismet support is only available with self-hosted or on heroku

you need to set up environment variables with your site name and akismet api key wherever staticman is hosted.

> **[Staticman at Heroku](https://spinningnumbers.org/a/staticman-heroku.html#akismet---under-construction)**
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> Staticman is a small web service that handles the POST requests from your forms, runs various forms of validation and manipulation and pushes the result to your repository as data files.

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