# Special "Leaderboards" for Discourse Forums?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/special-leaderboards-for-discourse-forums/12023
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** completed
**Created:** [1월 17, 2014, 7:55오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/special-leaderboards-for-discourse-forums/12023 "2014-01-17T19:55:38Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@BCHK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/BCHK)
#### Post date: [1월 17, 2014, 7:55오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/special-leaderboards-for-discourse-forums/12023/1 "2014-01-17T19:55:39Z")
You have to be careful with this idea because you don’t want to promote just “volume” of postings - but it would be very interesting to see experimentation (perhaps via plugin) with leaderboards to help encourage quality participation in the forums.
I’m thinking of things like multiple leaderboards - for people with the highest number of “likes”, or perhaps likes per month (so it doesn’t just bias towards people who have been at the site the longest), or perhaps some calculated leaderboard with weighting towards different things like likes, regularity of participation, etc..
It seems like this could be very beneficial in encouraging quality participation. Any other thoughts on this topic?
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [1월 18, 2014, 12:00오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/special-leaderboards-for-discourse-forums/12023/2 "2014-01-18T00:00:52Z")
Not a bad idea, we had that for Stack Exchange big time based on rep scores:
> **[Leagues - Top 400 Stack Exchange users per week, month, quarter, and year](https://stackexchange.com/leagues)**
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> We make Stack Overflow and 170+ other community-powered Q&A sites.
But a) there is no broad rep score to use and “like” is kind of an intentionally squishy metric and b) I think badging / achievements would have to come way before that.
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### Author:  [@pa5tabear](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pa5tabear)
#### Post date: [3월 12, 2014, 8:39오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/special-leaderboards-for-discourse-forums/12023/3 "2014-03-12T20:39:26Z")
Any updates on this?
I’ve been trying to think of motivators for a site I want to create, and I think a leaderboard would help for attracting certain people.
Anyone know if there are ruby gems or rails features that could be used for ranking users?
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [3월 12, 2014, 10:41오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/special-leaderboards-for-discourse-forums/12023/4 "2014-03-12T22:41:02Z")
Well, badge work is underway. I have wanted a way to look at most-liked users on a given site for various reasons, and users who I have personally liked the most.
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### Author:  [@war](https://meta.discourse.org/u/war)
#### Post date: [3월 5, 2015, 11:44오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/special-leaderboards-for-discourse-forums/12023/5 "2015-03-05T11:44:58Z")
> [@codinghorror](#):
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> [http://stackexchange.com/leagues](http://stackexchange.com/leagues)
Has there been any progress on this?
I would love to implement a leaderboard instance for monthly and overall “like’s” on one of my Discourse Instances. I’m imaging some sort of simple side bar plugin which has 3 tabs at the top and displays 5 users below it. The 3 tabs would go between most likes all time, monthly, and one other feature and then the Users could earn month specific badges. i.e.: Most Valued Contributor February 2015
Maybe this would be annoying over time to always highlight on the home page but it would certainly be a large “motivator” to our potential audience.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [3월 5, 2015, 9:29오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/special-leaderboards-for-discourse-forums/12023/6 "2015-03-05T21:29:31Z")
We plan to add something in this area as a start, in the next few weeks.
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### Author:  [@downey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/downey)
#### Post date: [3월 5, 2015, 9:34오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/special-leaderboards-for-discourse-forums/12023/7 "2015-03-05T21:34:20Z")
> [@war](#):
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> The 3 tabs would go between most likes all time, monthly, and one other feature and then the Users could earn month specific badges. i.e.: Most Valued Contributor February 2015
See this for a short-term workaround, potentially:
> [@“First post” badge!](https://meta.discourse.org/t/first-post-badge/276674/2):
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> You mean the first public post that they ever make to your forum? /admin/badges + New Give your badge a name Pick an icon. The font-awesome names can be found [here](http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/cheatsheet/) (fa-pencil-square for example) or use a hosted image. This will be used on the various badges pages dotted around your site. Pick an (optional) image. You can use the same as the previous step. This image will appear on user cards. Select a badge type. For this you’d probably want Bronze. Pick a group (or create a new group for it …
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [6월 27, 2015, 8:16오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/special-leaderboards-for-discourse-forums/12023/8 "2015-06-27T20:16:32Z")
This is complete, visit the /users page to see the directory with stats.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [6월 27, 2015, 8:16오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/special-leaderboards-for-discourse-forums/12023/9 "2015-06-27T20:16:35Z")