What are points and levels?

Question

I've always wondred waht points and levels are. For example, I lost a couple of points just for asking a question. What's up with that?

Answer 1

· This is how to earn/lose points in YA

Begin participating on Yahoo! Answers

One time: 100 points

Ask a question

-5 points

Choose a best answer for your question

3 points

No Best Answer was selected by voters on your question

Points Returned: 5

Answer a question

2 points

Deleting an answer

-2 points

Log in to Yahoo! Answers

Once daily: 1 point

Vote for a best answer

1 point

Vote for No best answer

0

Have your answer selected as the best answer

10 points

Receive a "thumbs-up" rating on a best answer that you wrote (up to 50 thumbs-up are counted)

1 point per "thumbs-up"

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Points and Levels

To encourage participation and reward great answers, Yahoo! Answers has a system of points and levels.

The number of points you get depends on the specific action you take.

While you can't use points to buy or redeem anything, they do allow everyone to recognize how active and helpful you've been. (And they give you another excuse to brag to your friends.)

Levels are another way to keep track of how active you (and others) have been.

The more points you accumulate, the higher your level. Yahoo! Answers recognizes your level achievements with our special brand of thank you's!

And finally, as you attain higher levels, you'll also be able to contribute more to Yahoo! Answers - you can ask, answer, vote and rate more frequently.

Click on the link to see the points required to attain different levels

http://answers.yahoo.com/info/scoring_sy...

Click on the link to learn all about YA so that you can stop wasting points asking about it.

http://help.yahoo.com/l/ph/yahoo/answers...

You should start answering questions, and give all your best, so that your answer will be chosen as the best answer.