Community Roles & Programs

Without the wonderful, diverse and knowledgeable members of Answers.com, we couldn't have one of the fastest-growing Q&A communities around! That includes our Contributors, Community Assistants, Supervisors and more. Learn more about the different types of community members below.

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A contributor supports the mission of Answers.com: to foster the exchange of information and grow collaborative Q&As into a permanent information resource. This includes asking and answering questions, improving existing answers and collaborating with others. Contributors have an opportunity to reach additional milestones for their ongoing participation. Special contributor levels include:

500 Contributions

5,000 Contributions

25,000 Contributions

100,000 Contributions

200,000 Contributions

500,000 Contributions

Premier Answerers are dedicated contributors who spend the bulk of their time researching and answering questions. Typically, they are experts in a certain field or on a particular topic and possess the knowledge to answer complex or detailed questions. Often they are recommended by Supervisors for their outstanding and consistent posts.

Bug Catchers are our most active contributors in reporting bugs or irregularities in the behavior of the website. They help to keep the site running in tip-top shape, suggest new features and assist in testing new site functionality. Those with over 75 quality posts on the malfunction/bug forum receive a "Bug Catcher" badge.

The Green Thumbs badge was previously given out to contributors who played an important role in writing category descriptions, which provide assistance to askers of new questions who are unsure where to categorize their question.

Linguists are some of our most multi-talented contributors. They have made over 500 quality contributions to Answers.com sites in at least two different languages. This includes our English, Spanish, French, German, Italian and Tagalog Answers.com communities!

Special Project Assistants perform tasks such as seeding new questions, recategorizing Q&As, cleaning up vandalism and spam and other critical daily activities that lend to a better overall user experience for all members of our community. They believe in giving for the greater good and are recognized by Supervisors for their time and effort.

Community Assistants, or CAs, help the community, including Supervisors, to be more efficient with the wiki aspects of Q&A (asking and answering questions, editing and so on). A CA performs the less exciting tasks, which in turn makes the time that others spend on Answers.com more enjoyable and productive.

A Category Supervisor oversees one or more categories of interest. Often, those employed (or hobbyists) in a certain field will choose to supervise their category of expertise.

While similar to the Category Supervisor, the Floating Supervisors are without the responsibilities of overseeing a certain area of the site. Floaters can be activity-specific (i.e. recategorization, question-editing, etc.) or non-specific.

A Senior Supervisor — or 'seasoned' Supervisor — is responsible for a top-level category and working/coordinating with all Category Supervisors within that area.