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I can't believe Spiritual Paradigm Shift is a Top Contributor, they give terrible answers about 2012 and a bunch of crazy lies and claim to be an Astrophysicist.

Oh my goodness!! What do you think??
BTW, I'm not trying to be mean.... I'm just in a state of shock...
Answering 2012 questions alone could make you a Top Contributor. lolz
I don't care about 2012, I don't believe it. It's just lies thank you.
Also, my question doesn't have NOTHING to do with 2012.

Read the question closer Kev.
 
All it takes to be a top contributor is answering lots of questions in a relatively short amount of time (4 to 6 weeks). Whether the responses are correct or not doesn't matter. I was a top contributor in Astronomy and Space, Earth Sciences and Geology, and Geography. Then I went home to New Orleans for 17 days, including transit time. I don't have a cable connection to my house in New Orleans. It took another 4 to 6 weeks to regain top contributor status, and I still haven't regained it in Geography. I've become pretty picky about which questions a choose to answer.

Incidentally, have you ever tried to vote a "thumbs up" on your own response? It doesn't work. People claiming that people who have over 15% best answers have multiple accounts - that shows that they are pretty ignorant about how computer systems work. I have MANY e-mail accounts with yahoo.com and Gmail, but I use only ONE e-mail account and one user name for YA. I'm not desperate for points any more. I just keep answering questions and keep watching the Best Answer e-mails accumulate. Eventually I'll get to level 6.
 
I believe "Top Contributor" is probably automatically generated.

"Contributor" merely means questions are answered - not good or correct or anything else. I don’t know if it is based on points or just questions but I lost mine by just taking a week vacation where I didn't have the internet. And when I got back it took four months of heavy answering to get them back.

I don't think anyone reads the questions.
 
Here is the best explanation of 2012 I have found so far:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFvq-IzjLd4&feature=channel

Future predictions are always shaky. The 'Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle' states that just looking at something will alter it, including the future.
 
The other day I looked back at some old questions, and discovered that he and his ilk have been voted the most popular answers in many questions.

I think there's a bit of 'coordinated' voting happening there. In several cases the most outlandish answer got 100% of the vote.

For the rest of us answerers, I suspect we don't usually bother to vote - we just answer as best we can and don't go back. I think this may be a weakness in the system; if a questioner gets good answers but doesn't select one, it goes to a vote. That's when these people pick up and can become 'Best Answerer'!

Have a look back and see for yourself. The '2012' and 'moon landing faked' questions seem to be the worst for this. I'm even starting to suspect that some of the askers are so doing as a set-up.
 
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