Yes, but with a caveat that we only look 10 days behind when doing recalculations.
Optionally, you can use the “Recalculate Scores” button on the admin UI to trigger a wider recalculation.
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Hey folks,
Is there a mechanism to inform users about where they are on the leaderboard or provide them with a mini summary of their weekly totals via email/dm?
I have read the posts around the possibility to use a badge and the custom SQL to award this when they reach a certain total but I was also wondering if people had any other experiences of using method to inform users?
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There is no automated notification system at the moment.
What I’ve seen in the wild is communities establishing periods and doing a topic showcasing the top users at the end of each period, like quarterly, monthly, or annually.
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Ah, that’s a good suggestion. Thank you. 
Are there any plans from the team to include external (Email) or internal (PMs) notifications from the plugin?
Not currently, but if you have an idea of how that would work I’d love to see it posted as a feature request with details on Feature.
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Regarding the new user invitation event, I encountered a minor issue during the actual operation. During the event, I set the invitation points value to 250 cheers. Some users invited 10 new members to join the community through the event and received 2500 cheers. However, after the event ended, I adjusted the invitation points back to the regular value of 50 cheers. As a result, the points of users who had already participated in the event and earned invitation points were also reduced from 2500 cheers to 500. Is there any way to avoid making such an adjustment?
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I guess if you would have waited for 10 days and THEN changing the points, the score would stay unchanged.
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I’m a bit confused by something, can you please clarify this?
I had “like receive score” at 0, and didn’t realise that an update 5 months ago added Discourse Reaction support and automatically added “reaction receive score” as 1.
I just changed that to 0, and recalculated everything, but nothing has changed.
Is that because in order for reaction to score, likes need a score? Have I not actually changed anything here?
Thanks!
Edit: never mind, just took a little while to change!
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Indeed, recalculating everything from the beginning, plus the time to recreate all our cached tables may take a while depending on the site activity and server specs.
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Is there any way, maybe with Data Explorer, to figure out where someone gets all their points from?
For example, see a user’s score and how many are from new topics, new posts, likes, reading, etc.?
There is this one Gamification Calibration, but… it needs updating to include the reaction and chat scores
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Why did I wait a long time and my scores didn’t update automatically?
Hi cnlanny and welcome to our community! Scores are recalculated once a day via a background task.
I think they’re updated more frequently than that for ‘current’ events, and the daily job does a double check of anything that may have changed over the last 10 days:
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Having said that… I think the frequency of the ‘scores for today’ was updated to be hourly instead:
Could someone check that and update the doc if needed?
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Updated the wiki at the OP.
It’s an unfortunate trade-off. Previously we had quick updates, but the leaderboard view would be slow in very large sites.
We made the leaderboard performance stay good at any size, but updates are now much more involved so we had to cut back the speed 
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