February 15, 2010 at 1:11 pm
Answering good questions is the secret to leveling up!l
When visiting Answers, there are three main ways to engage with the members of the community: you can ask a question, answer a question, or vote.
By now, you’ve figured out that asking a question costs you points, and answering a question awards you points. But did you know that you can also earn a point by voting on an answer?
How do I earn (or lose) points on Yahoo!7 Answers?
- Get a best answer: earn 10 points
- Get a “thumbs up” on your best answer: earn 1 point (max 50)
- Answer a question: earn 2 points
- Choose a best answer for your question: earn 3 points
- Vote for an answer: earn 1 point
- Vote for no best answer: 0 points
- Ask a question: spend 5 points
- No Best Answer was selected by voters on your question: 5 points returned
- Log into Yahoo!7 Answers: 1 point per day
- Violate the community guidelines: lose 10 points
- Delete an answer: lose 2 points
More details on points and levels can be found here.
How can I get to the next level on Answers?
When participating on the site, two tips will help you move from level to level in no time—they are:
- Provide Best Answers—be sure your answers are quality, don’t violate the Community Guidelines and answer the question!
- Search for your question before you ask it: while your question may seem unique, you may be shocked just how many people before you have come to Answers to ask “Why is the sky blue?” – Save your 5 points and use the Advanced Search feature to check the site for similar questions before asking your own.
- Use the “Sort” feature to find questions with the fewest answers- by filtering by the fewest answers you’re naturally “upping your odds” of earning a “Best Answer” as you’ll have fewer other answers to compete against, and, may be providing someone with the perfect answer!
With these tips under your belt, you’ll be at level 7 in no time! Happy answering!
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very en-lightening
scruffyjohnnnniee
This post doesn’t explain how answering ‘good’ questions is the key to levelling up. It just talks about questions with few answers already offered. I suppose because more people search for interesting questions, then give you thumbs up *if* you are selected for Best Answer, but there’s no guarantee a good question asker is more likely to select a best answer anyway — unless there are patterns of such??
On the basis of the points system I’d say that providing good answers to questions asked by regular users is the key. And persistence. And having a wide network of buddies within a category who will vote you up in the undecideds and give you heaps of thumbs-ups and your competing answers heaps of thumbs-downs.
Not that it’s a game or anything.
Well, this post does explain how to save up points. Besides, in my opinion, I don’t think that Y!A is supposed to be competitive. We only need points to ask questions that we need answered. Saving points is a good way of preparing for these questions.
And people usually answer questions outside their expertise. But they do so by writing it in such a believable manner and adding sources that they the information from to make their answer look more reliable. That is probably another way Y!A users get the ten points they want.