Want To Be A Top Contributor?

Question

What category can I start to be a top contributor in? Please help me, please.

Answer 1

A category you know about rather well.

I've been a TC in both R&S and C&A.  Simply give the best answers you know how.  Also if you see a question No one else seems to want to answer, and give a good answer to it, then it's a good bet you'll get BA.

Meanwhile TC is Highly overrated.  I've seen ALLOT of IDs rated TC, that gave garbage answers.

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

Go to one that you are expert in. There is no maximum number of top contributors in a category. You just need about 40-50 answers a month with about 4-5 best answers in a category.

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