# 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: ![david](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/david/32/157490_2.png) [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2026, 9:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-admin-user-from-user-directory-and-top-contributors/404885/21 "2026-06-09T21:41:09Z")

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> [@haydenjames](#):
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> No I tried that before opening. Thought maybe non-members had to be able to see the group for the exclusion to work. 😕 But no,` /u?exclude_groups=admins` is ignored entirely for unregisted visitors.

Oh ok! Well that sounds like it could be a bug then.

Just confirming: you’ve set both group visibility **and** group member visibility to ‘everyone’?

 ![SCR-20260609-tpeq](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/8/3/8/8385ec13f75f2382902749b38801986b7a5ef4f8.png)

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