How did you get your top contributor sign?

Question

Did you answered a lot of questions or what made you have it?

i saw one that a girl had and she didn't have much best answers

Answer 1

Here's what one of the actually Yahoo staff said about it:

"Top Contributors are not necessarily determined by an Answerer's level. A Top Contributor is an Answerer whose Q&A shows that they are knowledgeable in a specific category. You can become a top contributor in up to three categories. The better your contributions are in any respective category, the more likely you'll become a Top Contributor for that category.

"We basically take an Answerer's overall contributions on Answers in each individual category, toss them into a hamster wheel, and the ones that manage to stay on the wheel become Top Contributors."

Or there's a whole blog entry on the flag here:

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-d8pH0dcoRKeB12yOcnUQp.9VCFos;_ylt=AhZzkJc8w3crCXEtBBwscVHpy6IX?p=19664

It's rated on a weekly basis, and the exact criteria keep changing. Hope that helps!

Answer 2

I actually have no idea; mine just showed up one day. I would assume it has to do with the % of best answers broken down by category.

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How many total answers did she have? If she answers a lot of questions her total best answer % could be low but she still may have a large % of best answers in one particular category?

Answer 3

I wouldn't mind knowing that myself.

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