# "Frequent Posters" does not exclude whispers
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/frequent-posters-does-not-exclude-whispers/69788
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [11 Septiembre, 2017 05:11 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/frequent-posters-does-not-exclude-whispers/69788 "2017-09-11T05:11:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@jcoates](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jcoates)
#### Post date: [11 Septiembre, 2017 05:11 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/frequent-posters-does-not-exclude-whispers/69788/1 "2017-09-11T05:11:53Z")
The frequent poster stats within a topic are currently based off of total number of actual posts, not those visible to the user. For example, log out and take a look at [Onebox Link Trips 'First Quote' Badge](https://meta.discourse.org/t/onebox-link-trips-first-quote-badge/68412). You will see the that Jeff and Joshua each wrote two hidden posts and TechAPJ is listed although he didn’t write any visible posts.
Likes totals are also drawn from total number of posts rather than visible.
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### Author:  [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)
#### Post date: [11 Septiembre, 2017 05:27 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/frequent-posters-does-not-exclude-whispers/69788/2 "2017-09-11T05:27:45Z")
Hmmm, do you think that’s a bug though? It might actually make sense to include whispers.
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### Author:  [@jcoates](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jcoates)
#### Post date: [11 Septiembre, 2017 05:34 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/frequent-posters-does-not-exclude-whispers/69788/3 "2017-09-11T05:34:32Z")
The frequent posters listed on the category page querys only visible posters and the stats for total replies only lists visible posts. Seems inconsistent to change to all posts for the frequent posters and likes.
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### Author:  [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)
#### Post date: [11 Septiembre, 2017 05:36 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/frequent-posters-does-not-exclude-whispers/69788/4 "2017-09-11T05:36:05Z")
Ah yup, that’s a fair call.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [11 Septiembre, 2017 07:49 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/frequent-posters-does-not-exclude-whispers/69788/5 "2017-09-11T07:49:44Z")
Hmm yeah, I don’t know how painful it is going to be to exclude whispers from the topic stats under the first post.
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### Author:  [@jcoates](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jcoates)
#### Post date: [11 Septiembre, 2017 10:16 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/frequent-posters-does-not-exclude-whispers/69788/7 "2017-09-11T10:16:03Z")
You are already ignoring whispers in the category view. You could check that query.
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [13 Septiembre, 2017 15:14 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/frequent-posters-does-not-exclude-whispers/69788/8 "2017-09-13T15:14:39Z")
Just pushed a fix 🍌
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/0096ee40da5b848a2db2f5ecbfefd07ef494f934](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/0096ee40da5b848a2db2f5ecbfefd07ef494f934)
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### Author:  [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)
#### Post date: [13 Septiembre, 2017 18:07 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/frequent-posters-does-not-exclude-whispers/69788/9 "2017-09-13T18:07:33Z")