How come some people have top contributor status and others don't.?

Coleen Carignan: they contribute more...

Nancy Mansell: Cheers UWS ,wow 40 best answers is like more than 1 a day thats alot also over 12% will probably be hard.

Catheryn Small: I don't think Yahoo 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 & Ri! ddles because there are no TC’s in either of those categorie! s....Show more

Chastity Doderer: great answer faizzul really explained it well.Cheer m8

Thomas Riner: To become a TC you need a minimum of 40 Best Answers in the same section a month and your % of Best answers in that section must reamin over 12%. You can lose this status if you fail to meet the requirements.

Delmy Varano: this'll help you out...http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-d8pH0dcoRKeB12yOcnU...

Tobie Oshea: Oh right cheers liverbird thats reaklly helpful.And maybe you dont need as many as 4o BA's then.Im not bothere about becoming one just interested to know how it all works.

Donnie Bolio: if it was that obvious dyou think id ask i mean what do you have to do.

Loise Mausser: This is the third time i have been giving one and i still don't know how the system works.