When you write a comment, you share your experience with the website or business with other WOT users. Leaving a comment after you rate a site can help others decide if they want to visit the site or not.

When writing your comments, please consider the following:

• Be objective and truthful. Useful comments include not only whether you liked or disliked a site, service or product, but also why. Please comment according to your real experiences: you are responsible for your comments.

• Differentiate between the technical safety of the site and the content

• Support your assertions or statements

• Try to keep it short, but focused

• If you are the owner or an employee of the site mention this in your comment.

Avoid these:

• Obscenities, discriminatory language or other language not suitable for a public forum

• Advertisements or  "spam" content

• Email addresses, phone numbers, physical addresses or other forms of contact information

• Critical or spiteful comments on other comments posted on the page or their authors

In our experience, users who disagree with the reputation or otherwise feel strongly about the site are more likely to also write a comment, so it's not uncommon for comments to appear to contradict the reputation. Rating websites and adding comments are separate actions and most people only rate a site and do not leave a comment.

No. A site's reputation is computed from ratings, not comments. Leaving a comment is completely optional and meant to provide more information.

The order of comments in a scorecard is determined by user votes. All users can vote a comment up or down depending if they agree or disagree with it. The comment with the highest total vote count is shown first and the rest follow. If a comment is voted down (it has more negative votes than positive ones) it is not shown in the comment statistics tab.

If a site's reputation rating is determined to be controversial, comment voting is disabled to prevent one side from suppressing opposing views by voting them down. When voting of comments is disabled, the order of comments is determined by users' activity score.

Please note that voting of comments does not affect the reputation rating.

Not usually. The comments represent the views of the users who posted them and we aren't in a position to determine their validity. We don't monitor comments posted to scorecards, but do remove comments containing profanities, spam, or clearly illegal content when these are reported to us.

There are two ways to do this:

1. You can write to the person on their Board. Just click on their username and it will take you to their Profile. Once you are there, you may leave them a message on their Board.
2. If you are the owner of the website, you can respond to user comments on the scorecard after claiming the website. Follow the "Click here if you own this site" link your site's scorecard to complete the claiming process.

You don't have to provide us any information. The thumbnail and description are automatically fetched from your website. When you claim your site on WOT, you can edit the description shown on the scorecard.