# Hide admin user from user-directory and top contributors

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-admin-user-from-user-directory-and-top-contributors/404885
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** user-directory
**Created:** [June 9, 2026, 8:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-admin-user-from-user-directory-and-top-contributors/404885 "2026-06-09T20:11:37Z")
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### Author: ![haydenjames](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/haydenjames/32/255678_2.png) [@haydenjames](https://meta.discourse.org/u/haydenjames)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2026, 8:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-admin-user-from-user-directory-and-top-contributors/404885/1 "2026-06-09T20:11:37Z")

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Does not work when logged out:

[https://meta.discourse.org/u?exclude\_groups=admins&order=likes\_received](https://meta.discourse.org/u?exclude_groups=admins&order=likes_received)

Logged out:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/d/2/5/d25f4bcc54ae35798dc79edd1fbc4604f83b83f9.png)

Logged in:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/5/b/8/5b8043f779b7fe224f9340cfd5c6bf73242b3a7f.png)

I stumbled across this because I noticed when logged out of my own forums, I’m no longer excluded from users sorted by likes received.

Is this deliberate to expose members of the admin group even when `/u?exclude_groups=admins` is set?

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