Yahoo! UK & Ireland Answers blog

Here in the Yahoo! Answers Team we’re always busy working towards making the site better. Most days it means behind-the-scenes work but some days it yields visible results: today is one of those days.

We’ve heard from you guys for a while now how frustrated you are that the Leaderboards weren’t quite right and rest assured we were just as frustrated as you. What added to this frustration is that the technology behind them, that counted thousands of millions of users’ points, wasn’t as straightforward to fix as we might have liked, hence why it’s taken a short while for us to put them right.

But we’re excited to announce that the Category Leaderboards are now accurate and updated. We working on a fix for the overall and weekly Leaderboards, which we will let you know about as soon as it has been completed. As part of this we are also correcting how we calculate Best Answer percentages to ignore deleted Best Answers. This is long overdue: many thanks for being so patient.

These changes may affect you in different ways. The Category Leaderboards will now be more accurate, reflecting recent points and deleted questions and answers. As a consequence some of you will be promoted up the boards, similarly others might slip down a little. Remember that Leaderboards are based on the country who’s Yahoo! Terms of Service you sign. So for example only users that signed the French Terms of Service will be seen in the French Leaderboards.

Many thanks for your patience on this, we hope this one small step toward Answers and all its users having an amazing 2009.

– Yahoo! UK & Ireland Answers Team