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Anonymous asked in Yahoo ProductsYahoo Answers · 1 decade ago

How can i become a Top Contributor in Yahoo Answers?

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    Well a Top Contributor is one which Contribute to Yahoo Answers

    By answering more and more questions

    Not only this

    If you receive your answer as the best

    You may think you had completed one step to reach to Top Contributor

    If your best answers is many like 200 0r 250

    in one section

    either sports or cars

    YOU MAY THEN BECOME THE TOP CONTRIBUTOR

  • ?
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    To become a Top Contributor you just have to answer a lot of questions in a category, and receive best answers for them, and continue to do that to keep the badge. You just need to find a category that you like and know a lot about, and answer, answer and more answers in that category. Plus you need quality, as well as quantity in all your answers. Being a Top Contributor is not about the amount of points you have or which level you have reached, it is purely down to contribution in a category and the correct amount of best answers in that category.

    To be a Top Contributor you have to answer questions in 1 - 3 categories (best to just concentrate on 1 category to start with) and obtain 12% (or more, no one knows the correct figure) best answers in that category. The exact number of questions that you need to answer is also not known, but there have been suggestions that it might be 40 to 50 answers a week in just one category, you do not need to spend every waking hour on your computer to achieve those answers, just a couple of hours a day. The Top Contributor badge is awarded on a Monday and it will disappear on a Monday if you do not continue to contribute to the category that you got the badge.

    You cannot be a Top Contributor in Polls & Surveys or Jokes & Riddles, although you could be the Top Yahoo Answers Answerer for those categories.

  • A Top Contributor is someone who is knowledgeable in a particular category.The top contributor badge is dynamic, which means that you earn it or lose it depending on your recent participation in a particular category.

    Top Contributor badges are given out on Monday mornings only. If a person stops answering and getting best answers in that category, the top contributor badge can be taken away the same way on Monday morning.

    The total number of answers or percentage of Best Answers by which we can earn a TC badge is Yahoo's secret. No one is sure about it. Some say a total number of 70 answers and 10% best answer rate is required and some say that a total of 20 best answers in 3 weeks can earn a TC badge but these are all rumors

    My experience (TC more than 10 times in different categories) says that you have to earn 21 best answers within 3 weeks to become a top contributor. You can lose the badge within 3 weeks if you don't receive BA's

    Top Contributor badges are not given in Polls and Surveys and Jokes and Riddles sections.

    You can become a top contributor on any level. It has nothing to do with how many points you have and on which level you are on.

    Yahoo says that you can become a top contributor in only three categories but you can become in more. The fourth category in which you are a top contributor won't show up in your profile but if some one will move mouse over your avatar, it will show. You can roll your mouse over my avatar to see

    http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/answers/network/c...

    Have a nice day! :)

  • Lew
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    "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 a maximum three categories."

    Contrary to the popular misconception that you need lots of points and a high level to become a Top Contributor, the fact is, anyone at any level can become a Top Contributor, number of points and level gained have no bearing on gaining the TC badge.

    Answer questions - get best answers. No-one has ever earned a TC badge without getting best answers. The TC badge is awarded on the number of questions answered and best answers received by the user in a particular week, in a particular category.

    It is rumoured that you need at least a 10 percent best answers in your chosen category to get a TC badge although the actual percentage and the number of answers is Yahoo's secret.

    All you see and read on the subject is unsubstantiated speculation, rumour, illogical assumption, imagination, and creative guesswork.

    A user who is on the leader board may or may not have a TC badge, the criteria is measured on weekly participation in a particular category (number of answers and % of best answers in the category).

    The easiest way to get a TC badge is to concentrate on one category where many questions are asked and hope to get enough best answers to get a Top Contributor badge..

    The Polls & Surveys and Jokes & Riddles categories do not have Top Contributors.

    If you have contributed enough to meet Yahoo's criteria, the orange badge will appear below your avatar on Monday morning.

    It can disappear just as easily on Monday morning, if you don't keep answering questions and getting best answers.

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  • `
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    The Top Contributor is a member of the Yahoo! Answers community who has shown that they are knowledgeable in a particular categories...........

    Iam telling you my experience.....

    Its so easy.......

    First you should choose your favourite category.... And you should know about that category....

    Keep answering in that category..... Get more best answers on that category.....

    In my experience...... I answered 110 Questions in 2 weeks...... I got 35 best answers in that....

    Any one can able to become a Top Contributor.......

    User can able to become a Top Contributor in 3 categories.... But some users are showing 4 & 5 Categories.....

    The Top Contributor badge will be appear on monday...... After you got the badge.... You are not supposed to give the enough best answers... The badge will be disappear on new monday.......

    You cannot become Top Contributor in Polls & Surveys, Jokes & Riddles.........

    Hope you got it !!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I also want to be a top contributor

  • 1 decade ago

    By answering questions in ONE category and get best answers after you get about 12% BA in that category, an orange badge appears.

  • 1 decade ago

    not by stealing others the right of being that or by cheating. its all about earning it and be knowleagable enough to become top contributor. Would this be enough for you?

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    In the age of mid student and end stage of job completion and achieved best in life or free to do any thing. In all these circumstances

  • 1 decade ago

    Answering questions in one category with good responses so you will be chosen as best answer.

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