# Experimenting with some new scoring defaults on Meta

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/experimenting-with-some-new-scoring-defaults-on-meta/283799
**Category:** Site feedback
**Tags:** feedback, gamification
**Created:** [October 29, 2023, 9:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/experimenting-with-some-new-scoring-defaults-on-meta/283799 "2023-10-29T09:30:44Z")
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### Author: ![JammyDodger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jammydodger/32/254611_2.png) [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2023, 9:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/experimenting-with-some-new-scoring-defaults-on-meta/283799/1 "2023-10-29T09:30:44Z")

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You may have noticed some fluctuations in the Gamification scores here on meta… 🙂

Good news! It’s not broken. 🙂 We’re testing out some possible new score values to try them on for size: 🥳

| | Score |
| --- | --- |
| Visit | 1 |
| Posts read | 10 (per 100) |
| Time read | 10 (per hour) |
| Create a post | 2 |
| Create a topic | 5 |
| Receive a Like | 5 |
| Give a Like | 1 |
| Solutions | 100 |
| Invites | 10 |
| Agreed Flags | 10 |

We’re thinking that reading is pretty integral to most sites so have juiced those metrics up a bit, as well as making Solutions a big-ticket item 💯, and increasing the scores for all those hard-earned Likes people are getting.

I’ve also created another link to an extra Leaderboard in the sidebar where you can see the scores for everyone without pesky Discourse team members gumming it all up. 🙂

 ![sidebar leaderboard links](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/6/3/7/6379ec7202d81c44fdf7d5457eaf41e3b9da1396.png)

Let us know what you think. 📝 👍

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### Author: ![Heliosurge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/heliosurge/32/571810_2.png) [@Heliosurge](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Heliosurge)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2023, 9:56am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/experimenting-with-some-new-scoring-defaults-on-meta/283799/2 "2023-10-29T09:56:20Z")

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Looks good nut a supplement to adding reactions as a customization ad different sites msy use different reactions.

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### Author: ![JammyDodger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jammydodger/32/254611_2.png) [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2023, 11:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/experimenting-with-some-new-scoring-defaults-on-meta/283799/3 "2023-12-04T11:08:53Z")

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2 posts were split to a new topic: [Is there scoring for badges?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-scoring-for-badges/287405)

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### Author: ![Andrew\_Rowe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/andrew_rowe/32/445877_2.png) [@Andrew\_Rowe](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Andrew_Rowe)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2025, 3:58am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/experimenting-with-some-new-scoring-defaults-on-meta/283799/5 "2025-01-03T03:58:22Z")

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looks really cool, I’m 13th without the admins  
Any easy way to exclude admins? Did I miss this in the docs?

edit:  
ok sorry, found a solution here

> [@Can some users be excluded from Gamification?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-some-users-be-excluded-from-gamification/293840/2):
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> Hi there. I believe you’d need to put them in a group. You can then exclude a group in the leaderboard settngs when you create a new leaderboard: