How to be a Top Contributor?

The Top Contributor badge is given to users who answer a lot of questions in up to 3 different categories and get a fairly decent amount of Best Answers in these categories. The Top Contributor badge is usually given to users who actively answer questions in particular categories. To get or keep the badge, one must continue answering questions and getting Best Answers in the categories that they wish to have the Top Contributor badge in.

The formula for becoming a Top Contributor is kept a secret by Yahoo and is kept secret so that it is not just a thing for people to gain who don't deserve it. People believe that you need to have a minimum of 10% Best Answers and answer a certain number of questions in a certain amount of time, but that is just speculation. There is no set amount of answers that you need to get or percentage of Best Answers that you need to get and no set amount of Best Answers that you need to get. You also don't have to have a certain amount of points in order to get the Top Contributor badge, although I have rarely seen a Level 1 Top Contributor :).

If you do not remain active and actively answer questions and getting Best Answers in the categories that you are a Top Contributor in, you can lose the badge. As was said before, so long as you stay active in the category(ies) that you want the Top Contributor badge in, and you keep on getting Best Answers in that category, you'll keep the Top Contributor badge :P.

Jokes & Riddles and Polls & Surveys are the only categories where it is not possible to get a Top Contributor badge in.

Hope this helps :)

A Top Contributor is a member of the Yahoo Answers community who has shown that they are knowledgeable in a certain category. Each user can be a top contributor in up to three categories except polls and surveys and jokes and riddles.

You earn it or lose it depending on your recent activity in a certain category and they show up on Monday..

The TC badge is awarded on the number of questions answered and best answers received by the user in a particular week, in a category.

It is believed that you need at least a 10 % best answer in your chosen category to get T/C although the actual percentage/ number of answers is Yahoo's secret

Hi Emma

peep into my profile and see that i have answered 1257 questions. Well, at least 1000 of these were in the Maths section. thus my maths badge. i became a top contributor quickly (2/3 weeks) but i must have answered 300 maths questions in that time.

☺☺☺Top contributor badge ☻☻☻

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■ 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.

☺☺☺How can you earn a top contributor badge☻☻☻

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►The Top Contributor badge is dynamic One,you earn it or lose it depending on your recent participation in a particular category.

○○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.

► The exact formula is kept secret by yahoo but the common theory is that you need a minimum of 10 percent best answers in each particular category and is said to be reviewed weekly.No one is sure about it. Some users said that a total number of 70 best answer answers is required in a month and 10% best answer rate is required to earn TC badge. Some other people said that a total number of 20 best answers in 2 weeks in a particular category can earn a TC badge but these are all rumors(guessers). Just answer questions frequently and try to contribute as much possible as you can in particular category and try getting best answers

► 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 top contributor badges are distributed to their respective top contributors only in the Monday morning.The top contributor badge can be taken away from existing users in the same way on Monday morning.Once a person stops answering or stop contributing himself in yahoo answer and not being picked as a best answers in a particular category then he/she looses his/her top contributor badge in the same Monday morning.

► The top contributor badge is not permanent and can be removed at any time.So choose the category's you feel you can get best answer and research every detail you can find with links to add to the answer and do not answer questions you don't think you can get you best answer (it will lower your percentage of best answers).

► For more information read this blog regarding Top contributor badge:- http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-d8pH0dcoRKeB12yOcnU...

☺☺☺Why you lose top contributor badge☻☻☻

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♫ If you stop answering question frequently or stop contributing in a particularly category then you will lose Top contributor badge in that category.

♫ If your overall Percentage of best answer decreases less than 10% then you will lose Top contributor badge.

♫ If a Tc's level of participation falls,he/she will likely lose his/her badge.

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♦ Don't attempt questions of Only ''Jokes & Riddles'' and "Polls and surveys'' category because most of the existing people(around 90% of the existing people) in "Polls and surveys" or "jokes & riddles" category has no "Top contributor badges" and yahoo! didn't want to give "Top contributor badges" to their deserve "Top contributors" in.

♦ Don't guess any answer because it will lower your percentage of best answer.So choose the category's you feel you can get best answer and research every detail you can find with links to add to the answer and do not answer questions you don't think you can get you best answer.

♦You probably need around:

1• Try to get at least 10% overall best answer or in a particular category.

2• Try to answer at least 50-60 Questions per month in the category you wish to become a Top Contributor in.

3• Try to get at least 20 to 30 number of best answer around 2 or 3 weeks.

4• Do not attempt any questions which you don't think you can get you best answer (it will lower your percentage of best answers).

5• Try to get (250 to 400) points in a two or three weeks.

6• Try to answer a question in a point wise.This will attract asker's mind to read your answer.

7• Use different type of symbols like ☺☻♥ ♦♣♠•â—˜ ○◙♂♀♪♫ ☼►◄↕‼¶. It will attract asker's mind to read your answer.

8• Answer a question very politely ,courteously,informatively & as helpful as possible.