How come my rating is going down?

You have answered a number of questions since yesterday. These answers have not yet been rated, so as others have said, your %best answers has gone down. If some of these answers areselected as 'best answer' then your rating will go up again.

You may be getting more BAs, but you are answering more where you are not getting BAs. The total matters, for example.

2 BAs with 4 total

BA% = 2/4 X 100 = 50%

Now get 5 more BAs but answer 16 more total (5 BAs, but 11 not BAs)

BA% = 7/20 X 100 = 35% 7=2+5 20=4+16

Now get 20 more BAs but answer 80 more total

BA% = 27/100 = 27%

To keep 30% all new questions must also be 30% BAs, no matter how many. If you do better than 30%, your % will go up. Not the more you answer, the harder it is for the percentage to move either way.

Percentages

Divide the number of Best Answers by the number of answered question and you will get your %

Yahoo round the % down as they don’t use fractions.

You will find your % drops as you answer questions, and will go back up when the BA’s come rolling in.

Chetak

It is because the more you answer new questions, then the percentage of best answers will go on decreasing.

For eg: 10% of 6000 answers will be 600 whereas 28% of 48 answers is supposed to be 13.

Hope you got it :)

If you answer 100 questions and 50 are BA's = 50%

If you answer 200 questions and 50 are BA's = 25%

Ratio between Q's answered vs BA's

You answer a question, and then the person who asked it chooses your answer as the best answer= Your best answer percentage goes up.

You answer a question and the person who asked it doesn't choose a best answer or chooses someone elses answer= Your best answer percentage does down

:) hope that explains it.

Its a percentage so you must be answering more questions your not getting best answer for to.

Look at your statistics, you will have the number of questions best answer and number you didn't get best answer for :-)