# Exclude staff from statistics
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/exclude-staff-from-statistics/259048
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [March 22, 2023, 2:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/exclude-staff-from-statistics/259048 "2023-03-22T14:35:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Helga\_Razinkova](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Helga_Razinkova)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2023, 2:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/exclude-staff-from-statistics/259048/1 "2023-03-22T14:35:20Z")
Hi everyone!
I’ve checked out [another topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/exclude-staff-from-dashboard-kpis/120640) where this issue was discussed, but it seems there is no solution yet, right?
- Maybe I’m missing something and there is a way to exclude staff from the statistics (topics created, posts created, etc.)?
- Also, it seems Replies section includes not only replies themselves, but all the actions on the whole (‘made this topic public’, ‘assigned this topic’, hidden replies, etc.) - is there an option to track replies only?
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2023, 5:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/exclude-staff-from-statistics/259048/2 "2023-03-23T17:36:08Z")
You can use the [data explorer](https://meta.discourse.org/t/32566?silent=true) plugin to generate such statistics, though I don’t see any built-in queries that do that.
Mostly, if your community is new enough that staff actions are a sizable amount of your total traffic, then you can count the number of user posts by hand. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Helga\_Razinkova](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Helga_Razinkova)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2023, 7:28am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/exclude-staff-from-statistics/259048/3 "2023-03-24T07:28:19Z")
@pfaffman thank you for your suggestion!
Yes, I do count it manually now but as you guess it’s far from being convenient 🙂 It looks like a real basic feature, and it’s sad it’s not available yet.
Thank you anyways for looking into this!