For Top Contributors:?

Catheryn Barringer: No one knows the exact formula Yahoo uses for choosing its' Top Contributors.My best advice to is to choose categories in which you are knowledgeable and provide polite, concise answers. Rumor is that you must have at least 10% Best Answers.TC badges are dynamic in that they based on participation. If you stop answering the badge will go away. You can earn it back, though.You can have TC badge in up to 3 categories.Good luck!! :)...Show more

Cassidy Pangrazio: To be a top contributor you need to be knowledgeable in up to thee category's. the exact formula is kept secret by yahoo but the common theory is that you need a minimum of 10% best answers in each particular category and is said to be reviewed weekly. 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).http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-d8pH0dcoRKeB12yOcnU......Show more

Dexter Dicostanzo: All were great answers...wish I could split the points! Mouse....thanks for the specifics!

Jose Calaycay: I don't think they ever said exactly how many best answers you need in a category to be a "top contributor." I suspect it varies from category to category depending on how popular the category is. Just pick a category that you're good in and answer A LOT of questions in that category and you, too, can be a "top contributor." Don’t believe people when they say “just answer 50 answers in 30 days” or stuff like that. Yahoo keeps it deliberately vague so they never promised an exact figure to anyone. It may, as I said, vary from category to category. However, I have a rough idea of how long it takes to become a top contributor because a friend of mine made it after she answered all her qu! estions in only one (1) category for a month in order to earn ! that badge. She doesn’t log on as often as I do so that only amounted to about 85 answers but she made it. She had a 30% “best answer rating.”It’s been said somewhere here on Yahoo that you need at least 10% of those answers to be “best answers.” It may take weeks of answering a lot in a category so be patient, Rome wasn't built in a day. While I made it to “Top Contributor” in two weeks of answering regularly in certain categories, I do log on every single day. It’s harder to make it to Top Contributor if you only log in now and then or, when you log in, you don’t answer a ton of questions.Just remember, concentrate your energies on ONE sub-category. Don’t answer all categories say, in Health, but concentrate on Alternative Health or Women’s Health or Men’s Health or Diet and Fitness. PICK ONE SPECIFIC CATEGORY AND STICK WITH IT! The biggest mistake most people make is they spread themselves too thin....Show more

Luke Kosch: Thank you so muc! h to all of you for taking the time to give me great answers....That's why you have the coveted badges!

Sunshine Holets: you need to answer i think it was like 30 or 50 in the same topic a month, and 10% of those need to be best answer. and you gotta keep at it, you can lose a top contributer thing.

Silvia Stclair: If I am striving to join you, do I want to ......?- NO! It's NOT about answering A LOT of questions. Also, answering only those with the best chance is NOT a guarantee to get best answers. You will only restrict yourself that wayshould I worry about my percentage? - No - just answer and get more experience.Does asking questions effect my status? Should I save the points to get to higher levels?- NO and NO. I have seen people in level three with TC badges.And do you ever get frustrated ......?- NO. Life's too short to take Y!A that seriously. Get over that feeling and get on with answering the next question.Most of the previous answers have already g! iven you as to HOW to become a Top Contributor. My method... answer wha! tever you can. The more you answer the more points you will get. But try to answer more in some particular category you are knowledgeable in. The more you answer there, the more chance you will have of getting BA and the more BA you get there, the better chance of getting a TC badge. Cheers...Show more