What would cause the top contributor symbol to go away from your avatar?

Top Contributors are not permanent, which is to say you must continue to be an active answerer in order to retain a Top Contributor badge. Similarly, even if you are not a Top Contributor today, you can earn the badge by contributing high quality answers in any category or multiple categories of your choosing.

nobody seems to really have the answers, so here is my take on it. The person/s with the top scores in each category will be top contributors in that category. if someone comes along and gains more points then they can knock you off the top contributor shelf. How many seats there are on each category i have no idea. I could be way wrong also, this is my theory.

Stay off Yahoo Answers for a week and the badge will be taken away, because the user wasn't active.

Not being a top contributor...

its not like you get it, and then you have it for good... you have to earn it, and then work to keep it...

so i dont bother... i have better things to do.. besides.. you dont get anything out of it...

You fall below 10% Best Answer in that particular catagory

They come and go. Depends on your "Best Answers" totals, I think.

Asking more questions, or answering more questions w/o receiving a high amounts of best answers, or someone outranked you. Can I have ten points please?!

if you get deleted from yahoo answers.