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Rating fluctuating measurement
mar 11 nov 2008 20:15:53 UTC da wehaveitallI just have a quick question, how much does rating a website the complete opposite of what it is have an effect on your acitivty score. Like if you rated a green site red because you completely disagree how big of an impact does it have on your activity score?
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Re: Rating fluctuating measurement
mar 11 nov 2008 21:59:36 UTC da TimoI would say that it has no effect at all or very little. The activity score measures how active you are, not how you rate sites.
On the other hand, we do measure how reliable a user you are. Your reputation is calculated using statistical algorithms and giving one rating does not change it. However, if you constantly keep rating completely differently than everybody else, then your reputation will decrease.
I encourage all of you to rate sites as you feel is correct. That's the best way to ensure safer surfing.
rating sites
mer 12 nov 2008 12:06:45 UTC da cod headwhen i rate a site orange and add a comment like,other it turns white.sometimes i want to rate a site like a few bad links with a orange caution.but on the list theres a no orange category.as it is i can either rate a site orange and leave no comment or leave a comment and either rate it red or leave it white for other under categories.i would like a orange option under options.perhaps saying caution needed here.just a suggestion
Re: Categories
lun 17 nov 2008 06:57:52 UTC da SamiWe had a discussion about the comment categories earlier, but you're right, perhaps they could be improved.
A bit too automatic...?
mer 19 nov 2008 03:33:55 UTC da phantazmTimo: "However, if you constantly keep rating completely differently than everybody else, then your reputation will decrease."
I hope that "statistical algorithms" is not the only factor involved. Let's assume a person who really is that much better, so that he or she actually have good reasons to contradict majority. I don't think reputation should decrease automatically, but I do think this would be worth looking into, manually.
PS: Maybe I should add that I'm concerned about a potential problem, in principle. I don't consider myself that good at all; so it's certainly not a personal complaint. However, I also know from Siteadvisor that algorithms alone does not always catch all, distant detection neither - in short, human reviewers still make a difference (and of course they are not perfect either). But we need all aspects to play together; they all have a part in the puzzle...
I think that's why this forum addresses these issues
mer 19 nov 2008 10:03:18 UTC da BobJamphantazm: "human reviewers still make a difference"That I think is what this forum addresses in the "Comments on websites" section. If there's a question or an issue about how a site is rated, it's often brought up here. Indeed, I've seen the WOT folks go back and take a closer look at a rating for a particular site for that very reason: the rating was questioned.
So there are "human reviewers" when needed.