What do you have to do to become a top contributor on something?

Darnell Cutliff: "A "Top Contributor" is a member of the Yahoo Answers community who has shown that they are knowledgeable in a certain category. Each user can be a top contributor in a maximum three categories.You earn it or lose it depending on your recent participation in a certain section.The more positively you contribute, the more chance there is that you will get a TC badge. Just like featured users or category leaders, it's another way to give credit to community members."The TC badge is awarded on the number of questions answered and best answers received by the user in a particular week, in a particular category.It is rumoured that you need at least a 10 percent best answers in your chosen category to get a TC badge although the actual percentage and the number of answers is Yahoo's secret.A user who is on the leader board may or may not have a TC badge, the criteria is measured on weekly participation in a particular category (number of answers and % of best an! swers in the category).If you have contributed enough to meet Yahoo's criteria, the orange badge will appear below your avatar on Monday morning.It can disappear just as easily if you don't keep answering questions in your chosen category....Show more

Jill Thomer: You need to first realize that your only life goal is to get to level 10 on Yahoo Answers. Then after that you spend every waking hour you should be spending on a job or education or a social life behind your computer screen. Good luck

Ardell Luy: Well you said it. You have to have many a best answers. You can answer questions all day and be a level 7 but if you're just BSing your way through it, never starred, then you will not become a top contributer. Top Contributers have some of the best answers, or atleast they are voted that way.

Maria Devenney: Hey, The points system is weighted to encourage users to answer questions and to limit spam questions. There are also levels (with point threshold! s) which give more site access.[6] Aside from this, points and! levels have no real world value, cannot be traded, and serve only to indicate how active a user has been on the site. A notable downside to the points/level side is that it encourages people to answer questions even when they do not have a suitable answer to give, in order to gain points. On the other hand, many people ask questions not to gain more knowledge.The point system encourages users to answer as many questions as they possibly can, up to their daily limit. Once a user shows that they are knowledgeable within a specific category they may receive an orange 'badge' under the name of their avatar naming them a "Top Contributor". The user can then lose this badge if they do not maintain their level and quality of participation.[7]. Once a user becomes a "Top Contributor" in any category, the badge appears in all answers, questions, and comments by the user regardless of category.Level / points table1â€"249 250â€"999 1,000â€"2,499 2,500â€"4,999 5,000â€"9,999 10,000â€"2! 4,999 25,000+ Points are earned as per following Points Table:Action Points Begin participating on Yahoo! Answers One time: 100 Ask a question -5 Choose a best answer for your question 3 No Best Answer was selected by voters on your question Points Returned: 5 Answer a question 2 Deleting an answer -2 Log in to Yahoo! Answers Once daily: 1 Vote for a best answer 1 Vote for No best answer 0 Have your answer selected as the best answer 10 Receive a "thumbs-up" rating on a best answer that you wrote (up to 50 thumbs-up are counted) 1 per "thumbs-up" Good Luck....Show more

Brian Marquina: 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 questions 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. Also, don’t bother trying to get a badge in Polls & Surveys or in Jokes & Riddles because there are no TC’s in either of those categories....Show more

Spencer Heidtbrink: Giving a lot of answers with some Best Answers, in one category, gets you the TC label. Rumor is 45-50 answers in one month, with 10% of them being Best Answers. Updates are made on Mondays. Here is the YA Help link: http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/answers/network/c...