Tell me . How does one manage to get 130,000 points in nine months?
This guy Raju has managed, and I admire him for having the tenacity to sit and answer the questions, to accumulate all these points.
If you do the maths on the probability of amassing so many points and the restrictions Yahoo impose, it is impossible to achieve in that time span. Explanation please.
2006-09-15 15:04:18 · 14 answers · asked by thebaldchemist 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
It doesn't take much effort to cut and paste answers repeatedly to many questions - not worth my admiration, not viewed by me as an achievement.
When someone recommends adult dating sites to 12 yr. old girls looking for boyfriends, and lists links to joke sites to someone who asked opionion about whether someone breaking and entering their home should be forgiven (the question included the term "no joke"), you wonder whether the question has even been read. Doing a search for key terms to find questions to answer for which you already have a preformulated answer, opening each resulting question, and pasting an aswer without reading the question does not take much time. Someone doing this could answer many, many questions in a very short amount of time. It takes less than 5 minutes to do an advanced search on open questions for key terms like "joke", "dreams", "password" or "delete account" and then open 10 results and then paste the same answer if you don't bother reading the question -- less than 3 minutes if you have a good internet connection.
However, answering questions only gives you 2 points. There are people with over 25,000 answers that aren't at the top of the leaderboard. One needs to get a high percentage of best answers, and many, many "thumbs up" to get over 100,000 points with under 30,000 questions answered.
To get over 100,000 points without answering over 50,000 questions, you need to vote, get your answers voted or selected as "best" and/or get a lot of thumbs up. That likely takes much more time then pasting pre-formulated answers.
If you look our current leaders "best answers" - in quotes, because the answers aren't really good, but they got voted as best - you'll note that they each have 5 to 6 thumbs up - http://answers.yahoo.com/my/profile?show=AA10084738&bestansfilter=1&link=answer&more=y&cp=5&tp=345. So, for all those questions on that page, he received at least 17: 2 for answers, 10 points for being selected as "best answer", and 5 additional points for the thumbs up received. He could have received 18 points a question if it went to vote and he voted for himself. 17 or 18 pts per questions adds up much faster than 2 pts per question.
I am much more impressed with users who have fewer questions answered, but much more thoughtful responses. Imaka, for example, really puts effort and research into her answers. People like Imaka, Jane and Kevin who put so much thought and who have given so much to the Yahoo! Answers community have made this forum a great place. Point-gamers, on the other hand, detract from Yahoo! Answers and kind of spoil the fun. It would be nice to see someone who really gives of him or herself back on top of the leaderboard. I would admire them and view that as an achievement.
2006-09-16 06:03:50 · answer #1 · answered by ★ Estelle ★ 6 · 20⤊ 2⤋
If you noticed his answers, they are mostly cut and paste of 20-30 websites - giving the impression that he knows his stuff and people reward him for it. His Best Answer percentage is 61% while mine is only 11% - Raju has answered 11,500 questions or therabouts.
Most of his best answers come in the Yahoo category where he must be some Yahoo guru or Yahoo employee.
He has averaged nearly 500 points a day since he started - which was around the beginning for this forum as well. I've only averaged 340 pts a day - give or take. There was a 2-3 week period where I did nothing on this forum and I didn't discover voting for points until 2 weeks ago. Now I earn my 100 pts. a day for voting purposes.
Another example is mathgrl726 although she has 1/5 of Raju's total. She has answered only 2000 questions but her best answer percentage is 67% because she does the homework for the mostly middle and high school students who post in that forum. I'm arguing with her that the students do not learn anything when she does their homework.
2006-09-15 15:53:53 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 12⤊ 1⤋
Wow! Some people just have a lot of time on their hands? I mean, that comes out to 14444 points per month, over 481 points a day if he goes online every day. Then figure he spends all day sometimes, and other times only a few hours. Average that out to five hours per day, and you have over 96 points per hour. I haven't seen many folks who get better than 10% Best Answers, so he should have to answer 288 questions to get 96 points. (See equation below) At that rate he's handling nearly five questions per minute.
Conclusion: either he's giving miniscule answers to all those questions, or he doesn't have a life aside from Yahoo! Answers.
* Subsequent thought: I didn't factor in the 1pt per question rating as a source of points. Since that's a faster way to get points, it would bring his average down. But since it still takes time, it won't change the situation enough to throw off the conclusion.
* Another thought: Cheating. Didn't think of cheating.
2006-09-15 15:12:13 · answer #3 · answered by Trips 3 · 5⤊ 2⤋
Make many accounts or have friends make accounts thats sole purpose is to give him best answers.
2006-09-15 15:11:49 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
the bloke clearly has no life.
get a job you lazy git and stop wasting your life infront of the computer
2006-09-16 12:31:06 · answer #5 · answered by vish 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋
No life other than his PC, plus lots of "cut 'n paste" answers.
2006-09-15 15:12:18 · answer #6 · answered by DrJunk 3 · 5⤊ 1⤋
He must have help from friend voting for him he is doing the scam.ram dam a dam
2006-09-15 17:46:04 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 6⤊ 1⤋
Presumably he has (divine?) help. But hopefully he'll answer for himself then we can all find out.
2006-09-15 15:11:38 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Have no life
2006-09-15 15:09:05 · answer #9 · answered by sur2124 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
multiple id's answering his own questions and giving himself the best answer. total f*****g loser.
That's my guess.
2006-09-15 15:17:13 · answer #10 · answered by gazongas 2 · 9⤊ 1⤋