Yahoo! UK & Ireland Answers blog

If you’ve recently visited the Answers Leaderboard, you may have already noticed some changes. When Answers first launched, the ability to view the point standings on a single leaderboard made perfect sense. However, as Answers has grown globally, the need for a bigger and better leaderboard has become more apparent.

The biggest improvement is that we now have leaderboards for each local Answers site. You can access your local leaderboard from your My Q&A, or Profile, page.

The point leaders can now be viewed in either an overall or weekly standings format. While the overall standings will not likely change as frequently, the weekly standings will offer a better idea of how Answerers stack up in the standings based on weekly performance.

For instance, on our UK leaderboard Crystal is the leader for both the UK Overall, and for the most recent week on the UK Weekly board. Crystal managed to attain over 6,000 points last week! However, even a Level 1 user could potentially find themselves at the top of the weekly board on any particular week.

This is especially cool for UK and Ireland Answerers, because we can now identify local leaders and more easily compare standings with the rest of the world on the Global Overall and Global Weekly boards. That’s right, we didn’t get rid of the original leaderboard, so everyone can still take a look at global standings with the added bonus of seeing weekly stats as well.

We hope you enjoy the changes, and be sure to let us know what you think in the forums.

–Yahoo! UK & Ireland Answers team