Dealing with spammy subscribers

Spammy subscribers are no good! Here are a few suggestions for dealing with them:

• If you've got an older Buttondown account, you may not have enabled double opt-in. Turn that on in the Danger Zone section of your newsletter's "Settings" page. It'll help cut down on spammy subscribers.
• We'll be building out Captcha support in the future but in the meantime, if you still are seeing lots of spammy subscribers contact us and we'll see if we can help.

Mistakes happen, and Buttondown errs on the side of caution in order to protect your newsletter and its deliverability. If we've blocked or marked a subscriber as spammy, but they're not actually spammy, you can restore their status by marking them as OK in the top-right corner of their subscriber profile.

Additionally, if you can tell that they've been blocked because of a typo in their email address, you can unblock them by changing their email address.