General discussion

You need to rate the site too, leaving only a comment has no effect on the reputation.

cod head: "To be honest I thought when you filled in a category
it automaticaly put a rating with the comment."

I think that's an honest mistake, and quite understandable.
At least I was thinking along similar lines. But let's compare:

In Siteadvisor you can click the category "phishing or other scams". By clicking you have selected the category and rated RED. Actually that's quite logical; there's nothing green about phishing.

In WOT you can click the category "phishing or other scams". But this is only treated as a comment and has no impact on the sites reputation. But why not? This is somewhat contra intuitive, imo...

PS: I'm not trying to highjack this thread. Please discuss this here...

WOTs system is quite finetuneable, and have more categories than Siteadvisor or Norton SafeWeb. But sometimes a site is simply red; nothing good to say about it, and therefore no need to finetune.

I think you're right: choosing a category should automatically be converted into rating (if the reviewer doesn't do more). If this doesn't happen, then valuable information is lost...

PS: I'm still referring to this debate: The rating system is inconsistent.
No reason to split a topic among many similar threads...

Yes mehfuz WOT is one of the best forums I attend for two important reasons.You can say practicaly anything within reason without folks taking offence and the other reason is that if WOT thinks someone has a valid comment it often acts on it.At some sites a newcomer may be simply ignored but at WOT all have a voice and all are listened to.The point phantazm is trying to make is a lot of people,myself included have left a comment,picked a category and thought the red or green category would be applied as a rating.But unless you choose a rating you only leave a comment and not a rating.We are not suggesting altering WOT.Only if a person leaves a comment and a category without leaving a rating then by default it would turn to the colour of category chosen.

Ok, maybe I should have said that Comments and ratings are normally more or less interchangeable terms; I didn't mean that they were identical.

Sami: By definition, a rating is "a position assigned on a scale"

Yes, that sounds quite logical to me. But in the real world there might be more than one logic at play. An example: If I claim that a site is phishing, then it's automatically 100% red. In my opinion at least. I can't recall any 75% phishing sites, or similar. A scale is really not necessary here. Sometimes it's quite binary...

Sami: "You shouldn't confuse the two just because you can choose a positive or a negative category for your comment."

I think the confusion is understandable; in SA choosing a category also implies a rating. But not here..? This difference is still not obvious...

The confusion here seems to be one of semantics.

Perhaps a different word, like "Discussion". would clear this up.

Or perhaps, clearly and even in big bold letters, you may want to say something like "THIS IS NOT A RATING" on the scorecard Discussion/Comment. I mean, how much more clear could it get than that?