(The quickest way to register)

Forum

Dear visitor! The webpage is only available in English. We're sorry for the inconvenience.
  1. User picture
    • jaybird on Fri 06 Nov 2009
    • 05:53:15 PM UTC

    WOT is Biased

    I use WOT and thought I could trust when it gave a website the green icon. However, I went to one of my favorite gospel singer's website, which I thought it was, but it turned out to be MySpace..
    http://www.myspace.com/therealfredhammond

    Fortunately when I clicked a picture which would have started a concert , I received a notice from NoScript. This is when I decided to look into the WOT rating. What I saw surprised me.

    Spam 40
    Bad Customer experience 74
    Phishing and other scams 194
    Malicious Content 267!
    Spyware and Adware 17
    Adult Content 442

    With all of the above, all of the Reputation Ratings were green!!! What gives?

    To add insult to injury, these words were added by WOT: "Congratulations on Your Site Reputation."

Comments:

  1. User picture
    • Sami on Fri 06 Nov 2009
    • 06:03:00 PM UTC

    Re: Comments aren't ratings

    I received a notice from NoScript

    A notice that said what exactly?

    With all of the above, all of the Reputation Ratings were green!!!

    The reputation is computed from ratings, not comments. There are more than ten thousand ratings for myspace.com, but obviously users who happen to feel strongly about the site for some reason are more likely to also leave a comment on the scorecard.

    Edit: It seems you already posted about a similar topic in October and it was explained to you that reputations are computed from ratings. What gives?

    • User picture
      • KellyFlowers on Fri 06 Nov 2009
      • 08:06:48 PM UTC

      Sorry, hit the wrong button

      Sorry, hit the wrong button dude...You ARE right though!

    • User picture
      • demonluo on Sat 07 Nov 2009
      • 12:30:19 AM UTC

      the scorecard really need a

      the scorecard really need a 3x bigger note (instead of a small one) saying, comment is not rating b4 another topic like this comeout again...

  2. User picture
    • evilfantasy on Sat 07 Nov 2009
    • 01:23:04 AM UTC

    myspace.com

    You do realize those ratings/comments are for myspace.com and not therealfredhammond don't you?

    That said, Myspace is very insecure. I wouldn't trust anything that you need to click there.