When you write a comment, you also have to select one of options, such as “Good site”, “Useful, informative”, “Malicious content, viruses”, “Phishing or other scams” etc. I wouldn’t be surprised if this kind of data was also used somehow.
Perhaps this would explain the small differences in rating—for example currently “singularity.org″ has “Trustworthiness” and “Vendor reliability” 60, and “Privacy” 58, and I suppose that people click the same answer to all of these. (Alternative explanation is that the rating is on the scale, and they simply clicked a different pixel.)
The page expressly says “Supplement your rating by leaving a comment. Comments provide more information, but do not affect the reputation.”
If you click “Rate this website” you can rate each scale as you wish. Surely some users choosing different values on the scales is a much simpler explanation than that the site programmers built in a more complicated rating system then lied about it?!
Your comments don’t count, your ratings do: screenshot of WOT page showing relevant controls and explanatory text
(look for the green “Rate this website” link above right of the rating graphic)
When you write a comment, you also have to select one of options, such as “Good site”, “Useful, informative”, “Malicious content, viruses”, “Phishing or other scams” etc. I wouldn’t be surprised if this kind of data was also used somehow.
Perhaps this would explain the small differences in rating—for example currently “singularity.org″ has “Trustworthiness” and “Vendor reliability” 60, and “Privacy” 58, and I suppose that people click the same answer to all of these. (Alternative explanation is that the rating is on the scale, and they simply clicked a different pixel.)
The page expressly says “Supplement your rating by leaving a comment. Comments provide more information, but do not affect the reputation.”
If you click “Rate this website” you can rate each scale as you wish. Surely some users choosing different values on the scales is a much simpler explanation than that the site programmers built in a more complicated rating system then lied about it?!