How do I get over 20000 points like the top members?

The short and sweet answer is simply be active on Mahalo. The more detailed answer is as follows. As stated on Mahalo-belts and on mahalo.com/answers/points_guidelines you can earn points for the following activities.

- Join Mahalo and get 50 points (one time) - Login to Mahalo: 1 Point (per day) - Give or receive a tip (2 points per M$1, up to belt-specific daily limits) - Answer a Question: 2 Points, unless it is in the first 60 minutes from its posting, which makes it 4 Points - Provide a Best Answer: 10 Points plus 2 added points for every M$1 in the tip (see how-to-get-a-best-answer-on-mahalo for tips on how to do this) - Vote on Undecided Questions: 1 Point per vote, even if you vote No Best Answer (Mahalo-belts includes information on how many such votes you can cast per day; for example, at yellow belt it's 20/day, at green it's 40/day, at purple 60/day, etc. ) - Add a Source to an Answer: 1 Point - Refute a fact on an Answer: 1 Point (make sure to cite a source proving the "fact" is wrong before using this, as it should be considered a service to the community, not a point-getting method) - Each Mahalo Task you complete: 10 Points - Each 100 views on a Managed Page: 1 Points - Get 50 points for embedding the Mahalo Answers widget on (e.g. ) a blog (see http://www.mahalo.com/answers/widgets ). - Get points for widget views (plus M$1 per 1000 views) - see mahalo-widget-views for more on this. So, the above is the info you can find for yourself by simply looking up the relevant Mahalo pages.

However, to give a bit more inside scoop, here are my observations on getting points.1. Voting on undecided questions is the way that is most under your control. If you do nothing else on the site except vote your maximum allowed number of questions (once you have a white belt with yellow tip, since white belts can't vote), it will take you 146 days to become eligible for a brown belt (of course if that's all you did, you would not get the belt, but that's a different story).

Another 171 days at the purple belt with brown tip, doing nothing but voting your maximum daily number will get you to 20,000 points.2. Since voting all the time can become mind-numbing, going after best answers is probably your best bet for the Mahalo activity that is fun, interesting, lucrative (to some extent), and gets you points. This is what has brought me the most points of anything I do on Mahalo (probably about 65% of my points).3.

If you want to build up Mahalo income, you should seriously consider building a lot of high-paying pages.As a side benefit, each page you complete will net you 10 points. There are Mahalo users with over 1000 pages, which if they built those as tasks, would imply over 10,000 points. Note however, that building a good page will probably take you at least an hour or two, so doing it full time will not get you much more than 50-100 points per day.

That's why I recommend this path only if you want to do it for the page-building and the PM revenue, and not simply for the points.4. If you have a very high-traffic site or blog, embedding a Mahalo widget can get you thousands of points. @cfinke is the top Mahalo user in widget views, and if I'm not mistaken he is frequently the user who gets the most points per day, probably with little extra effort, as a result.

Good luck, and have fun on Mahalo.

You get points for answering questions, for having the best answer in a question, commenting questions, and so on. You can find a complete list of things you can earn points for here: mahalo.com/answers/points_guidelines To become a 'pro', you have to be a contributing, caring and active member of the site. There are also daily limits of points you can receive, so you can not become a 'pro' overnight.

I hope I helped!

You get points for answering questions, picking best answers for the questions that you asked, overall, just ry to be very active on the site. Have fun, and as time goes by you will see your points go up. And hopefully one day you will get 20,000 points!

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