In a Support category discussion titled “Leaderboard- Exclude Certain Users” tagged with gamification, sleslie99 asked if it’s possible to exclude specific users from the leaderboard after upgrading to the latest Discourse version, as two top contributors strongly dislike it. They suggested creating a custom group and using the excluded_groups_ids setting referenced in this meta thread. JammyDodger confirmed this is possible: by navigating to /admin/plugins/gamification, editing the leaderboard, leaving ‘include groups’ blank, and adding the custom group to ‘exclude groups’, the targeted users are successfully removed from the leaderboard. The plugin is noted as relatively new and may not fit all communities, but the workaround appears effective for this use case.
We just upgraded our community to the newest version and I have to say I was so excited about the leaderboard. We have 2 top contributors who are very vocal about disliking it and demanding that we remove it.
Would like to see if there is any way to exclude a couple of members who don’t want to show here.
I was looking and maybe we could create a custom group in the community and then exclude those people per:
I’ve just had a go on my test site, and this looks like it’s possible.
I went to /admin/plugins/gamification and edited the leaderboard I wanted to exclude the users from using the pencil icon. In there I left ‘include groups’ blank, and added my custom group to ‘exclude groups’, and that gave me the leaderboard but with just those couple of test users missing.
It’s quite a new plugin, and may not suit every community, but hopefully this helps.
