Please make modifications to show the manually added steps in both the Leader Board and the Step Challenges. While I understand that the change to exclude the manually added steps (implemented this week on the Leader Board but earlier in the Challenges) is related to individuals who cheat the system, the feedback in the Fitbit community seems to suggest that your core and very active customers WANT this feature for valid reasons and are offended that you've put the need to address cheaters above the desires of your committed users.
As suggested in the community forum posts, if you feel it necessary to differentiate the steps manually entered, this could be accomplished by showing the total steps as the primary total and including the manual steps as a subset of that total (e.g., Rob H. Total 95,993 (12,000 manual). That will better expose the "small number" of those who are cheating the system. Seems it would better to cater to the 95% of the users who are doing it right versus the < 5% who are cheating.
My husband and I have been loyal Fitbit customers since January 2014. We believe in the product and most importantly, the purpose of the product so much so that we have personally purchased or influenced the purchase of Fitbit trackers for 15+ individuals. Although some of these individuals have come and gone in our Fitbit world, we still have a very competitive and active group of Fitbit friends. For different reasons (running, using treadmills, elipticals, forgetting to charge the Fitbit, etc.), we often enter a portion of our steps manually. The inability to see our total steps, whether manual or otherwise, on the Leader Board defeats what I believe to be the purpose of the Leader Board, which is to encourage activity through friendly competition.
Thank you for your consideration!
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