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- on Sat 26 Dec 2009
- 12:10:28 PM UTC
Hello, Answers to most of
Hello,
Answers to most of your questions you will find in the wiki:
http://www.mywot.com/wiki/Main_Page
http://www.mywot.com/wiki/Activity_scores
http://www.mywot.com/wiki/FAQ
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- on Sat 26 Dec 2009
- 01:45:04 PM UTC
Hello,welcome to Wot!
Welcome to Wot chazm!
As DiM said,u will find most awnsers on wiki.
Anyway,if ur too lazy to go there,listen up:
U see,if u have 100 ratings,and they have 50 posts and 50 ratings,they will have more activity points,since they are doing different activities!
I am afraid i dont understand that last bit O_o
U get activity points from...well what u said.Thats all i can say
Samuel,yours truly
P.S:(sorry for using U's,but im typing very quickly)
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- on Sat 26 Dec 2009
- 07:12:26 PM UTC
re: How Actvitiy Score Works
Hello and welcome to WOT Forum
The Support page has a quick explanationWhat is an activity score and how is it calculated?
Just as the name suggests, an activity score is an indicator of how active you have been. It is calculated by combining information from how many sites you have rated, postings you have made on the forum or blog, invitations you have sent and shared ratings. It is not how much our system trusts your ratings, merely an indicator of your overall participation with WOT.
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- G7W -
- on Sun 27 Dec 2009
- 06:40:18 PM UTC
Thanks for the answers!
Thanks for the answers!
Just two more questions. It says the scoring works on a "logarithmic scale". Does this mean that the higher the acitivity score you have the less activity points you are awarded every time you rate a site/etc, or does this simply refer to how you require more points each time to move up in the rookie/bronze/silver/gold/platinum scale?
Finally how does one send invites to friends?
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- on Sun 27 Dec 2009
- 07:07:15 PM UTC
Finally how does one send
Finally how does one send invites to friends?
The " XY wants to invite you to WOT"function has been diabled, maybe because it may sound like spam sometimes. Contact your friends personally and give them some good arguments to join.
Blueberrycake Level Member of the WOT Community
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- on Sun 27 Dec 2009
- 10:27:31 PM UTC
re: logarithmic scale
Does this mean that the higher the acitivity score you have the less activity points you are awarded every time you rate a site/etc
Exactly.
It is easier, and quicker to move from Bronze to Silver. As you go "up" the "points" you are awarded goes down. "Points" are awarded differently, for example you "earn more activity" if you post in this Forum or the Blog than you would get for... say making a comment on a Scorecard. Some members have high quantities of ratings with comments but are not as "high" in the Top Member List because they are "quiet" within the Community. You must "Practice what you preach," as well as, "Preach what you practice." Or... so is my interpretation of the activity scoring system, I may be wrong...
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- G7W -
- on Sun 03 Jan 2010
- 01:24:17 AM UTC
A question or two....
If we help rate-red a site that's very-green but newly evil, won't that tend to make us appear unreliable to the merit algorithm? Assuming the site eventually goes red, are we vindicated in the eyes of the machine? If so, are the people who still have it rated green docked in any way? Should we go back and review all our ratings every so often or maybe they loose meaning after 1 year (similar to the comments falling off)?
Thanks!
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- on Sun 03 Jan 2010
- 02:23:23 AM UTC
Now that is a good
Now that is a good question... and been on my thoughts as well.
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- on Sun 03 Jan 2010
- 10:00:49 AM UTC
Re Question or Two
I would assume that your trustworthiness relies on a lot of scores and not a few.So if you vote against the grain occasionally it would have little impact.
Unless of course you only have a couple of ratings.But as I have said this is a presumption on my part.
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- on Sun 03 Jan 2010
- 10:38:48 AM UTC
Re: A question or two....
It's never a bad idea to review your ratings, but the algorithm that determines your reliability is a lot more sophisticated than that and won't base its trust only on whether you agree with others.
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- on Sun 03 Jan 2010
- 11:32:01 PM UTC
...that would be a
...that would be a discriminating... computer! :p
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- on Wed 10 Mar 2010
- 06:49:42 PM UTC
Do your ratings go down?
If you don't rate for a long time, do rating decrease?
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- on Wed 10 Mar 2010
- 10:50:48 PM UTC
Hi,
did you mean Activity Points: No, they do not
if you mean ratings: http://www.mywot.com/wiki/Rating_websites "Although ratings aren't deleted, they do expire over time"
greetings
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- on Thu 11 Mar 2010
- 02:35:49 AM UTC
rating expiration
ratings will decrease and expire if you do not revisit the rated site. However, if you visit periodically, then your ratings stay as they are, unless you change them.
For example, I hit mywot.com daily, so my rating is persistent.
The example.com spam domain I rated a year ago pretty much has extinguished it's "flame" -
- on Thu 11 Mar 2010
- 03:33:59 AM UTC
Contradiction
Doesn't that contradict WOT's statement that they will never record or make note of what sites a particular user visits?
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- on Thu 11 Mar 2010
- 11:47:15 AM UTC
Re: Contradiction
I'm not sure to which statement you are referring, but all requests the add-on makes to our servers are logged and the information is stored for a month. Your ratings are stored permanently unless you delete them, and every time your add-on requests the rating from our servers, the timestamp for the rating is refreshed. This information isn't public and it's not used to track you. If you are worried about this, you can always choose not to rate websites. If you haven't rated a website, any record of your add-on ever requesting its reputation will be gone after a month. You can read more from the privacy policy.
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- on Thu 30 Sep 2010
- 08:57:04 AM UTC
Criteria for WOT score
What is the score criteria for reaching next levels such as silver, gold, platinum etc? How is a Platinum rated member better than a silver or gold rated member , I mean what is the difference , is it that your credibility limit increases, your opinions and posts hold more effect on the overall credibility of the websites that you rate?
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- on Thu 30 Sep 2010
- 09:02:30 AM UTC
Levels are activity levels
Activity is rating, commenting, posting...
"How is a Platinum rated member better than a silver or gold rated member"
Platinum is probably better than bronze, but not necessarily. Activity level is public, reliability level is not.
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark, Scandinavia, Europe. Languages: Danish, English (and a bit Norwegian and Swedish).
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- on Thu 30 Sep 2010
- 07:12:14 PM UTC
Re: credibility
@ Atinc,
"How is a Platinum rated member better than a silver or gold rated member"
Phatazm said it correctly, but I would expand on it a bit and add a little more emphasis.Lately, there have been quite a few examples of the credibility of a Platinum member being a lot less than a subordinate member. The problem with viewing activity level as an indicator of credibility is that novices assume that the higher the activity level then the member is automatically more credible than subordinates. This can be a very dangerous assumption if a novice, which they often do, take the word of higher activity level members as "gospel".
In any judgment about a member's credibility, it is better to just disregard activity level and ask yourself, "Does my personal experience viewing this member's activity support the notion that this member is credible?" If the answer is "Yes", fine. But if the answer is, "I am not familiar with this member's behavior", then to default to the metallic color as an indicator of credibility is not the answer. The better answer is "I have no idea how credible this person is", and you should read on to get a better idea.
Sometimes a consensus is correct, sometimes not . . . a consensus may be wayyyy off. A frequent example of a consensus being wayyyyy off is when members speculate on the nature of the WOT algorithm. More often than not, WOT members consistently "guess" wrong about how the algorithm works (if you take Sami's word as accurate on that topic, and he should know 'cause I think he had a substantial hand in designing the darn thing).
When judging someone's credibility, rely on your own opinion rather than activity level, which is not really an opinion at all but rather a simple and sterile calculation that has absolutely nothing to do with credibility.
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- on Thu 30 Sep 2010
- 09:06:35 AM UTC
activity points
Does one get awarded activity points for posting in this forum as well?
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- on Thu 30 Sep 2010
- 09:10:57 AM UTC
Activity Level
What happens if a WOT member stops contributing and stops all activity in WOT. Does his activity rating go Down or remains where ever it is?
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- on Thu 30 Sep 2010
- 09:50:02 AM UTC
Re:
Answer: http://www.mywot.com/en/forum/5158-how-actvitiy-sc... !
Blueberry Cake Level Member of the WOT Community
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- on Thu 30 Sep 2010
- 09:50:59 AM UTC
Your activity level remains
Your activity level remains, if you stop / pause your activities.
In an earlier version of WOT activity could decline, but not now...Location: Copenhagen, Denmark, Scandinavia, Europe. Languages: Danish, English (and a bit Norwegian and Swedish).
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- on Tue 28 Dec 2010
- 09:36:12 AM UTC
RE: How Activity Score Works
Is there anywhere an orientation in terms of "What is a high activity" and "what is a low activity"? I only see some points there, but I don´t know if my points are "very much" or "very few". What is the "maximum"?
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- on Tue 28 Dec 2010
- 10:31:46 AM UTC
RE: How Activity Score Works
On the Community page you can find a list of the most active users. The scala is open ended but logarithmic (You need to rate more sites to get an "activity point" the more points you have). There is no maximum, but it becomes increasingly difficult to get at least one point...
There are more than 12.000.000 Users and less than 200 with more than 10.000 points...So, I suggest you ignore activity. Just rate to the best of your knowledge.
How Activity Score Works
I was just wondering if anyone could give me a brief insight into how one's activity score works.
I see I have many more ratings than others have posts, but they are on a higher (activity) level than myself. Does anyone know why this is? Also do you get points for forum posts, rating others' comments etc?
I also heard that as you rate more your reliability increases, so your ratings count for more. Does your increased reliability and thus ratings influence carry on only to all ratings you make in the future, or do sites you have previously rated with your lower influence change accordingly and automatically with your now increased influence, or do you have to go back and re-rate them to apply your new increased influence on them?
Finally, does your influence on ratings increase on a direct correlation with activity, or do they increase with level (ie all rookies have the same influence, bronzes the same etc etc)?
Thanks!