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Top Contributor, mer?
How do you become a top contributor in Y!A? Do you get a lot of best answers in a certain category?
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- RevLv 78 years agoFavorite Answer
A Top Contributor is somebody who answers frequently in a particular category or categories (up to 3) and achieves a minimum Best Answer percentage with those answers. There are no extra privileges in being a TC.
While the exact formula to earn a TC badge is a Yahoo! secret, it is believed by most of the experienced users here that in order to earn it one needs to answer a minimum number of questions over a few weeks in a particular category (my estimate perhaps 30+ weekly, and Polls & Surveys and Jokes & Riddles are not eligible categories) and get a minimum BA% on those answers (roughly 12%+). Categories which are not very busy will require fewer answers to earn the badge than one that is popular.
Once a TC badge is earned, one will need to maintain the same minimum level of answering, or they will probably lose the badge within 1-4 weeks.
- ?Lv 78 years ago
I answered some questions in Math. category and Ii hadn't many BA's when I got my badge, I just had 600 points.
