How did I become a "Top Contributor?

Q: What is a Top Contributor?

A Top Contributor is someone in the Answers community who, through their participation on Answers, has shown that they are knowledgeable in a particular category. Each Answers user can be a Top Contributor in up to three categories.

Q: How are Top Contributors determined?

The Top Contributor badge is dynamic, and you earn it by being an active participant who contributes quality answers in a particular category on Answers. Anyone can earn a Top Contributor badge as it does not depend on points or level.

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.

The more actively you contribute quality answers and best answers to a particular category, the more likely you will earn a badge for your contributions in that category. Just like featured users or category leaders, the badge is another way to honor and feature community members who are actively participating and knowledgeable in particular categories on Answers.

This is our first version of the Top Contributor badge, and we acknowledge that it is not perfected, yet. We will be continually improving the logic and heuristics used to choose Top Contributors in an effort to ensure that people who receive them are the most deserving. We’ve heard your feedback and we understand that there are concerns about abuse of this badge, and we will change the rules for Top Contributor as needed to combat gaming or abuse.

I don't know what the criteria

is for becoming Top Contributor, but I think you have to at least have X number

of points or have been a member for X months.

Be careful of gifts from an

unknown source.

I just know I was off here for a few day's. Lost my Mental Health Top C. ♥

Oh well! I honestly don't know how many Q's you have to answer. It just shows up.

You spent a lot of time on Yahoo Answers.

Probably cause for some self-examination.

I think if it ever shows up beside my icon I'll either change IDs to help me lie to myself, or I'll take the self-honesty route and do something else with my time. Might quit smoking, also.

I am not sure if it is due to frequency or quality of answers. I would have to assume frequency since there is no one to judge whether or not the answers are right or wrong. Besides most answers have no right or wrong ...just opinions.

I got a violation for asking this question and never got an answer! However, congratulations! Wear it with honor!

Well Dan my friends are always saying to me "Roseanne Roseannadanna you sure do talk a lot, don't you ever shut up?"

So Dan maybe you sure do type a lot, don't you ever stop typing? LOL!

Big hugs!Congratulations I love a man in a tux, so handsome!

Roseann

You deserve it Dan. So do a little dance and celebrate while it lasts. It seems to be a fleeting thing.

I was wondering this too. I answered a lot of questions about botany and then it appeared. ; )

I guess that makes me one of these people with too much free time. Ah, oh well. I'll get over it by answering more questions.

By your percentage of best answers! Santa gave you a present, enjoy!!! Congratulations!