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    • g7w on Wed 11 Feb 2009
    • 01:52:05 AM UTC

    3 out of 4?

    Just curious...
    In WOT's Settings, first page, There are 3 choices; quote:

    Select the rating components you want to use:

    1. Vendor reliability
    2. Privacy
    3. Child safety

    Select a component

    * to get warnings based on it
    * to view it in the rating window and search results
    * to give your own rating

    We recommend that you select vendor reliability and privacy in order to get warnings based on these. If you are interested in protecting children, please select child safety too.

    The scorecard pictured to the right of this text displays four ratings.

    Why is "Trustworthiness" not an available selection as well?

    ------- WOT Services Ltd. - gives us safety through Web of Trust. WOT Community - gives us security through unity. ∞

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    • The Big Bin on Wed 11 Feb 2009
    • 03:07:05 AM UTC

    Trustworthiness is always

    Trustworthiness is always enabled automatically. :^)
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    • wehaveitall on Wed 11 Feb 2009
    • 03:53:52 AM UTC

    Trustworthiness:Its background

    Trustworthiness is more than just how reliable information on a website is. I'm not exactly sure how to word it, but you can essentially call it....the base category. It's also whats shown next to search results as a website's rating.

    To help you get a better understanding, you can look back at version one of WOT (currently version 3). http://www.mywot.com/en/blog?page=18
    You'll see, before it didn't have a name, There was an overall bar of safety, with three named categories below it, (all of which now have new names.)

    Disabling trustworthiness would be like disabling WOT altogether-it's the core category, showing the overall safety.

    A big thank you to all the WOT staff
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    • g7w on Thu 12 Feb 2009
    • 01:18:24 AM UTC

    so it's more like a summary?

    So Trustworthiness is more like a summary of the other three?

    If so, then how would deselecting any or all of the other three components affect the component named Trustworthiness?
    (it seems the ratio would become unbalanced if even one of the other components were disabled)

    @ wehaveitall
    but you can essentially call it....the base category. It's also whats shown next to search results as a website's rating
    Really? Only the one component color rating is displayed?
    I thought it was a composite rating of the individual components "added" together.
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    • Toptiger5 on Sun 15 Feb 2009
    • 12:01:19 PM UTC

    Trusty

    The trustworthiness thing is like a generalized score for the website.
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    • jdonati on Mon 16 Feb 2009
    • 03:31:46 AM UTC

    A website may not need a

    A website may not need a "vendor reliability" rating, if it doesn't sell things. If it's not collecting your information, a "privacy" rating isn't necessary. But "trustworthy" is, as others have said, the base category for Web of TRUST. Do you TRUST this website, or does it try to plant malware on your computer, or provide false information?
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      • The Big Bin on Mon 16 Feb 2009
      • 03:57:01 AM UTC

      Privacy

      If it's not collecting your information, a "privacy" rating isn't necessary

      Maybe that would be a very green rating. But you never know what information it collects quietly, such as cookies (ok, you can find that one out =D), IPs etc.