do you believe that yahoo's "top answerers" exist?
i am more than a bit skeptical about the existence of some of the so-called "top contributors" on the leaderboards, particularly as most of the top ten have private questions and answers, leaving NO way to verify their activity.
on close examination it would appear to me that these are primarily "plants" by yahoo - probably employees, who have mined the boards for questions considered in need of "appropriate" answers.
i have been a member for the same length of time as "sunshine25 - Level 7 - 1486 Best Answers [in the journalism/news category] " but i have NEVER seen an answer by this supposedly extremely prolific answerer. supposedly having given 10, 863 answers over a three-year period means that she would have had to answer just under ten questions per day, EVERY DAY, for three years.
has anyone else ever thought about this???