How do you become a top contributor in a certain category?

Question

talking about yahoo answers groups

Answer 1

when you find out let me know..

Answer 2

I just kept plugging away. I got Top Contributor earlier this week in the "Birds" category because I actually HAVE three birds and like sharing valuable information.

I don't just stick to one category, though. I wander all over the place, but Birds is one of my favorites.

Answer 3

To become a Top Contributor in a particular category of Yahoo Answers, a person must have answered a lot of questions in that category recently, and have a certain percentage of their answers in that category be Best Answers.  Yahoo keeps the exact formula secret.  Note that it's a badge one can lose if one's participation (or Best Answer percentage) in that category drops later.

Answer 4

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.