How do I get that Top Contributor thingy under my avatar?

Lynn Melbourne: okay t.c and your best answer % doesn't have to match.to get a t.c. badge - stay in one categorydo a search of certain questions.answer that onenow do a copy and paste and continue with those questions that fell under the search results.to keep up best answer % you basically have to answer questions that are gonna close out soon - not having to wait a week for the asker or votes- and YOU definately know you're gonna be best answerer selected....Show more

Simona Bulwinkle: 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 ex! act 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....Show more

Dwight Siniard: A T?o?p C?o?n?t?r?i?b?u?t?o?r? is an expert in from one to 3 categories. it particularly is on the market in each type and sub type different than "polls & surveys" and "jokes & riddles". the precise skills are saved secret and no you possibly can say for specific. it particularly is a extreme modern-day share and quantity of superb solutions in a classification. Badges are issued each Monday morning. as quickly as you get the badge you ought to shop up your interest in the class or you will lose it. ? ??????q ?...Show more

Jed Porada: Send me a S.A.S.E. and I'll mail you mine.Kidding. All you really need to do is find a category in which you are knowledgeable and feel you can give good answers.Answer lots of questions in that category ... the exact number needed is the! subject of endless speculation, but 2 or 3 a day, or a handful every few days is enough.You must also have and KEEP at least a 10% Best Answer rating. Y!A updates every Monday, so if you follow the TC recipe, one Monday you'll log in and ... Presto! An orange TC badge around your neck!...Show more

Foster Koopmann: It is not important to me. I would do it if there were no points. When I get a note as I did today saying that my advise really helped them, that is points enough.