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wikiHow to Gain More Points in Yahoo! Answers

There are more answer experts who go to the questions and answers forum known as "Yahoo! Answers" everyday and earn thousands of points by answering tons of questions and getting more best answers. You can be one like those people too! Here are excellent strategies of accumulating more points.

Steps

  1. 1
    Answer questions you know best. If you know you're great a mathematics, stay in that section! You wouldn't go to Health if you didn't know much about that subject.
  2. 2
    Don't ask a lot of questions. Asking a question costs 5 points and deducts them from your account.
  3. 3
    When the questions you answered are put in voting section in your profile, go to those questions. In those questions, you see the "Choose as Best Answer" button below the users' answers. You are allowed to vote yourself. To do this, click the "Vote as Best Answer" button (on top of the thumbs up/down buttons).
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    Always be the first person to answer a question with best adequate information. Those who Ask like to see someone supporting their answers with details. This is an easier way to receive a best answer since it is the first one they read.

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    Tips

    • You don't have to follow the steps like above. You can ask some questions everyday to get answers.
    • Answers with the quickest typing speed and mastering knowledge in certain categories have higher chances of answering a lot of questions and getting best answers.
    • Make sure you know enough about the topic that you're responding to before you do it.
    • If you have nothing to answer,you can earn points by voting for best answers.
    • Adding details is optional. You might get the best answers without arriving your answer with details.
    • Give the most informative answer you can. You will most likely get a Best Answer if you do. Site your sources, give websites that might help, use correct grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
    • Reach the daily limit of answering questions and voting answers when you are between Level 1 and 4 (full chart located on Sources and Citations).
    • Save three searches in your profile. You will earn 20 points.
    • Passing this community guidelines quiz will give you 20 points-http://answers.yahoo.com/info/community_guidelines/quiz

    Warnings

    • Don't give pointless and/or useless answers to gain points, such as, "I don't know" or "Google it." Not only will others give you a thumbs down, but you're also not likely to get Best Answer, and your answer may even be deleted if reported. This is also called "trolling."
    • Do not beg others to choose you as Best Answer. This seems too desperate, and others may just ignore you just because you pleaded for the 10 points.
    • Don't stay up too long online. This is not healthy for your eyes, posture, and body. Take some rest!
    • More people in Yahoo! Answers get too addicted to this forum website. This wastes their time to do some activities, so don't be like those people.
    • Don't ask "chatting" questions (for example, "Can I have a chat with you?"). This violates the community guidelines.
    • Don't be too competitive about earning points. Yahoo! Answers is not a game.
    • Don't violate community guidelines because you'll end up losing points or your account, depending on the offense.
    • Don't create additional accounts, especially for your benefit to gain more points! This goes against the Yahoo! Answers community guidelines, and Yahoo! may even suspend you if they catch you red-handed. It is better not to risk it.
    • Read term & conditions before posting questions.
    • Don't answer questions with unnecessary or unrelated details. Yahoo! Staff will ban you or deduct points for doing this.
    • Don't make false reports on someone. You lose a lot of support from the Yahoo! Team.
    • Avoid Polls & Surveys and Jokes & Riddles, and other "easy" categories. They often give random best answers, and is not an effective way to earn points. It might even lower your Best Answer percentage.

    Things You'll Need

    • A Yahoo! Answers account

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