1. Go to the URL: https://akismet.com/account/
2. Sign-in or create a new account.
3. Click on Show to reveal the API key.
4. Go to Applications Settings on Admin Area (admin/application_settings)
5. Check the Enable Akismet checkbox
6. Fill in the API key from step 3.
7. Save the configuration.
Ok, it seems you’re not using your own GitLab instance (you haven’t installed it yourself), but you are using GitLab.com. In that case you cannot access those settings since you need admin access.
If you have spam issues, you can report the users by visiting their profile and using the exclamation icon in the top right corner. Otherwise, you can drop an issue to the support tracker https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/support-forum/issues.
Warning: as the screenshot below shows, this email address can be used
by anyone to create an issue on this project, whether or not they have
access to your GitLab instance. We recommend putting this behind an
alias so that it can be changed if needed, and
enabling Akismet on your GitLab instance to add spam
checking to this service.
Ok, so I will just publish the email adress I got there.
I was just having the same issue and looking around for a solution. Documentation from Service Desk seems to indicate that we can set it up. So if we are using gitlab.com we need to ask admins to set up askimet for us?