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    • lunboks on Fri 28 Aug 2009
    • 10:38:08 PM UTC

    Feature: "Disagreement notifications"

    Just this little idea I had... I occasionally browse the comments I left on websites to see if people agree with them. On several occasions, I altered or removed some of the comments because I noticed people had disagreed with them. For good reasons, mostly; outdated information and such. Also, hacked/hijacked domains don't always stay hacked forever.

    Well, what I'm saying is that it would be nice if we had a way to "subscribe" to people disagreeing with us. I figure this would also be helpful for people with tens of thousands of comments: For one, they cannot just browse through all their comments because of their sheer volume, and also, if I have read the forum correctly, there's a mass rating tool for gold users which is often used to "import" other blacklists into WOT. This is bound to produce some false positives. Users of the "innocent" site would then disagree with this comment, thus prompting the user to re-evaluate that site and review his comment.

    Uhm, so here's roughly what I was thinking of. I'd whip up something in MS Paint but I just found these nifty Unicode checkboxes. ;)

    • Enable: [no/yes/for mass-rated comments]
    • ☑ Notify when [X] users or more disagree
    • ☑ Notify when the score dips below [X]
    • ☑ Notify when a [Bronze/Silver/Gold/Platinum/Admin] member or higher disagrees

    So... yay or nay?

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    • Reprotected on Fri 28 Aug 2009
    • 11:39:59 PM UTC

    Privacy

    If you are notified that someone disagrees with you, especially with higher members disagreeing, isn't that pretty much like stalking someone's opinion?

    Just MyWOT and SpywareBlaster, I guess... Found a malicious or fraudulent website? Rate it at WOT ASAP! Found a game hacker? Report it to the game's anti-cheat team! Infected with a virus? Delete it with an antivirus =P
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      • lunboks on Sat 29 Aug 2009
      • 12:24:58 AM UTC

      anonymous

      Well, it would be if you were told who disagreed with you. That's not necessarily what I'm asking for, it could (and should) be anonymous.
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    • jpvip on Fri 28 Aug 2009
    • 11:58:08 PM UTC

    Guaranteed

    If you are really concerned about a site's reputation and want to track it, then set a bookmark to your browser for the scorecard. As for implementation, I think it would be redundant. Many of this communities' opinions stand. If there was ever a change on a website, we would probably talk about it in the forums here.

    ~DragonMaster Jay, malware researcher,
    Admin, helpmyos.com
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      • lunboks on Sat 29 Aug 2009
      • 12:55:40 AM UTC

      If you are really concerned

      If you are really concerned about a site's reputation and want to track it, then set a bookmark to your browser for the scorecard.

      It's less about the reputation of a single site and more about the general accuracy of comments.

      Many of this communities' opinions stand.

      I'm not suggesting you should budge and change your comment/opinion as soon as someone disagrees, even though the site you commented on is still the same. I'm saying the disagree button should also flag the comment to be reviewed (by the comment writer) when enough people disagree (default threshold should probably be 2 or 3). Will your comments still be valid in a few years? Probably not all of them.

      If there was ever a change on a website, we would probably talk about it in the forums here.

      Well, that would be another way to do things. I don't use the forums much so I wouldn't know about it.
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    • g7w on Sat 29 Aug 2009
    • 06:07:34 PM UTC

    re: Feature: "Disagreement notifications"

    Nay

    I understand your points and also that only those who dis/agree would be notified when a change occurs with the comment that they "ticked" changed, maintaining anonymity and it could be a good idea except for 1 small problem.

    A comment could be falsified.
    Example would be I rated your homepage / website RED but I placed a green "Good Site" comment to make it appear that I gave you a good rating. This is why comments are opinions and have no affect on the site's Reputation

    As for mass rating from lists...
    It depends upon what lists you use.
    Just because someone puts up a list of domain names and / or IP's doesn't make it reliable. I use lists that are current, valid, and well respected within various security-minded communities. You're correct that F/P's exist and when they are caught the site's Scorecard is amended; sometimes I catch the F/P's on my own, other times WOT Admin sends me a PM... so the ratings are adjusted - this is what makes WOT accurate and respected as a website reputation tool.

    Concerning users with large quantities of ratings / comments there was discussion about Exporting our own ratings in CSV or XML (which I need to *bump*) which could help when searching for domain removals; as it stands now... the script has a difficult time loading My Ratings page ("Oops something went wrong...")
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