# Attempting to create Monthly Leaderboard query - head exploding

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/attempting-to-create-monthly-leaderboard-query-head-exploding/86679>\
**Category:** Data & reporting\
**Tags:** sql-query\
**Created:** [May 3, 2018, 1:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/attempting-to-create-monthly-leaderboard-query-head-exploding/86679 "2018-05-03T13:37:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mittineague](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mittineague/32/114259_2.png) [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2018, 9:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/attempting-to-create-monthly-leaderboard-query-head-exploding/86679/20 "2018-10-08T21:42:57Z")

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Are you sure the query is counting posts in the excluded topics and it’s not that the query is counting posts that are hidden, deleted, or not the current public\_version?

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