What are the top contributors?

Top contributors are v. active members of the community known to provide accurate and detailed answers within the community. While the specific criteria to become a top contributor is unknown, top contributors will generally answer 40 - 50 questions a week in a specific category and will ultimately obtain a high percentage of best answers from answers provided. Some users believe this requirement to be 10 % best answers within a category however there has been no proof of such requirements.

All in all, top contributors are generally knowledgeable users in the community who participate regularly to answer questions. Therefore people in the top ten list may have lost the badge due to inactivity.

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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.

yahoo quislings ;-)

some of them are ok so i shouldnt generalize

edit - "All in all, top contributors are generally knowledgeable users in the community who participate regularly to answer questions"

by that he means cut and paste the same answers to lots of similar questions

edit - just for the record I dont thumbs down and third answerer who really cares about getting an orange bar? its not like Yahoo pays a wage to these people although sometimes I think they think they are Yahoo employees

edit - To asker, no not bitter in fact i find it quite humorous that people get some sort of self importance out of that orange bar, i mean cmon, is it really THAT important? too much stuff in life to care about something like that

Im here to enjoy it, I answer questions in the manner they are asked

a top contributor is someone who has knowledge in a particular category

am waiting for my top contributor...............