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    • alexulys on Wed 11 Nov 2009
    • 06:45:58 AM UTC

    Did I ever say I love WOT? No? Okay, I love WOT ;-!

    Somebody just tried to lure me to a bad rated site on facebook, and thanks to our community I got warned.

    Thank you and keep on going!
    Alex

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    • Warxas on Wed 11 Nov 2009
    • 07:20:19 AM UTC

    Yay!

    Go WOT! Glad you are loving WOT alexulys!
    I'm sure you have saved at least a few people from some dangerous sites. ;)
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    • alexulys on Thu 12 Nov 2009
    • 07:52:58 PM UTC

    Go WOT!

    I hope I did. I'm advertising everywhere for WOT in the hope that many sign in here ;-)
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    • Reprotected on Fri 13 Nov 2009
    • 05:39:03 AM UTC

    Word.

    Word,
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    • sebsauvage on Fri 13 Nov 2009
    • 07:55:46 AM UTC

    We got WOT !

    I have converted many people to WOT, from zero-knowledge computer users (family, the nanny of my kids, etc.) to geeks (colleague, friends and more)

    They all love it.

    That's what I love in WOT: It's usefull to all categories of computer users, whatever knowledge they have.

    And look at all those new antiviruses (Microsoft, Norton...): They now all use user-rating system to protect users from malicious files.
    Looks like WOT system was a good idea.
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    • BobJam (not verified) on Fri 13 Nov 2009
    • 08:12:50 AM UTC

    Slam

    I don't disagree that WOT is a good concept . . . and of course I am a supporter and proponent.

    Interestingly, though, the usual slam on WOT is the same as it is on all safe-link rating services: Sites are unjustly rated.

    WOT, however, unlike McAfee Site Advisor (which started these claims because of their bureaucratic appeals procedure that often takes a year or more to correct ratings via emails to SiteAdvisor), affords almost instant appeals via this very forum.

    I mean, a site owner, with a good argument, can appeal to this forum, and if it's warranted raters will go back and look at the site and re-rate if necessary to correct. That's a heck of a lot faster than emails to SiteAdvisor . . . if they have any effect at all.

    So, the slam on WOT basically puts WOT in the same category as SiteAdvisor . . . which it isn't.

    The misunderstanding that many users have is that all safe-link add ons are the same . . . not so in the case of WOT.

    In any case, my compliments as always to the WOT people.
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      • sebsauvage on Fri 13 Nov 2009
      • 10:11:20 AM UTC

      +1

      WOT [...] affords almost instant appeals via this very forum.

      +1
      I got the case with sk1project.com (good opensource vector tools) which was misrated red because of DNS-BH (MalwareDomains), and thus in WOT.

      I could turn the rating back to green thanks to WOT forums and its members.

      That's the difference between human rating (WOT) and robot rating (McAfee, with their link-scanning system).