How are "Top Answerers" in a Category chosen?
I answer most of my questions in the Higher Education area. I currently have 1459 Best Answers overall, so even if only 2/3 of my questions were in that category (and I would estimate it at more like 90%), I would come in before the #4 Answerer, who only has 631. Yet I don't appear on the list at all! Why is that?
I understand that people vote - that's why they are best answers. But the "Top 10 Answerers category" you can't vote on separately - that is given by the site itself. The perennial top answerer in the categoy, who supposedly has had 83% best answers, I've never seen show up on any list to vote for. I suppose he may have been on the forum early, before the rest of us got on, and stopped answering a year or so ago, but I have to wonder...