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notification question

lör 4 jul 2009 01.41.55 av goombapatrol

i've noticed on quite a few sites i've encountered great green ratings (so no warning) but a decent amount of comments on spam, malicious content, viruses, spyware etc.
(an example would be http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/softpedia.com, or even http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/yahoo.com )

is there a way (or would it be possible) to enable a notice/warning on the wot rating window for things like this?
has this already been suggested?

thanks.

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Red versus Green

lör 4 jul 2009 03.35.02 av g7w

WOT uses color to differentiate the safety "value" - reputation - of a website.
Green sites; light green and dark green, are considered safe generally speaking. This is computed by how a site is rated (voted upon for the various categories)

What you see are comments, which are not ratings and do not have any affect on the reputation, they are merely reference. It's safe to assume that if I rate a site low (red) and I posted a comment, my comment will give you an idea of how I rated it. Or I could try to "fool" you and rate low while posting a green comment of praise.

Let's say 3 or 4 WOT users rate a site low and leave warning comments, and that 200 other WOT users rate the same site high and leave positive comments. With WOT the majority rules so the site is basically safe even with disagreement.

You can go to WOT Settings and up the warning values from red to orange but this would not have any effect with sites that are at least light green.

Alway use caution when entering any unknown website, even while using Web of Trust. We do what we can to warn each other but as with any antivirus program, do not place your online trust with 1 or 2 tools.
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i understand about the

lör 4 jul 2009 07.51.17 av goombapatrol

i understand about the comments/ratings, and there's very few sites i've come across that conflict in the way i described (so it's not much of a problem, i guess).

thanks much for the quick reply!

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