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rkallaca asked in Yahoo ProductsYahoo Answers · 2 decades ago

Question about Yahoo Answers Leaderboard?

How can someone have answered say 2000-plus questions and have more than 40,000 points. Even if every answer was a best answer, you only get 10 points per best answer, so that would be 20,000 points. Where are the rest coming from? Especially 20,000 points. Is everyone cheating?

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  • Anonymous
    2 decades ago
    Favorite Answer

    Points come from answering, voting, rating, best answer, thumbs up ratings, visiting yahoo answers. Please recalculate ur stats. U will come to know. cheating is not possible on this site. Yahoo answers is very strict.

  • 2 decades ago

    Since Jane had choosed not to answer these common questions herself and put it on her 360 as FAQ. I am putting her answer here:

    That's probably not enough to get as many points as you have. How did you really do it? Honestly, it's not all great. A while back, before there was a No Best Answer button, there were tons of one-answer questions that were just waiting for another answer to go to a vote. I took it as my mission to resolve as many of these as possible, and with that vast number and the search feature, it was easy to find lots of questions I could answer without too much work. Then I would vote for myself on any that I had answered well (or the other answer if it was better), and won a lot of best answers that way. At least they were mostly good answers, and I learned a lot in the process. (And then there's all the time I still put into the site.)

    For those who do not know who Jane is then check leader board she one to have so many points # 2 during this weeks Leader board and had been # 1 many weeks.

  • Xavier
    Lv 7
    2 decades ago

    No, I don't think so but to get that score you have to answer a lot of questions and also rate some of the answers . If you logged into yahoo answers there is also 1 additional point, after you add all that you can get 40.000 points after a long long time .

  • 2 decades ago

    You get points in many different ways.

    Answering questions, voting and picking answers, and thumbs up, and well as best answer

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  • ?
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

    Haha - extremely :-). i'm genuinely a variety of unhappy those with over 20,000 factors. To be consumer-pleasant it took me a lengthy time period to get them and for a time - sure I did sit down on my workstation all day yet then i became very ill and couldn't do a lot else. It became relaxing on the time and gave me something else to imagine about. properly finished all those human beings xxxxxxxxxxxx

  • 2 decades ago

    No

    You are missing the voting and reccing part. If they are voting and reccing more questions than they are answering they can have that type of total.

    For those about to Rock, we salute you.

    -Dio

  • Anonymous
    2 decades ago

    work ing hard on answering more question , than asking

  • 2 decades ago

    They must all work for yahoo...

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