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Bad WOT Rating (16)


05-01-2012 04:08 PM #1 hd2010 (Member)
Bad WOT Rating

notice some of the offers have bad rating, anyway to get it green ?


05-01-2012 08:01 PM #2 kokofai ()

Outsource to 1000 people, on different comp and different ip, vote the site as safe. It will turn green afterward.


05-01-2012 09:47 PM #3 tijn (Moderator)

Use facebook page tabs to get around the link alerts

Heres a fb page dedicated to the problem & finding a work around .... early days but some potential

https://www.facebook.com/byebyewot


05-01-2012 11:07 PM #4 richardj (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by kokofai View Post
Outsource to 1000 people, on different comp and different ip, vote the site as safe. It will turn green afterward.
1000 people? I bet we could find 1000 affiliates to vote safe for every affiliate offer voted as unsafe! How many on STM Forums?

Let's start a new Forum section called 'MyWotRating'. Affiliates post up offers they want turned green again, everyone votes and gets friends to vote... Offer turns safe again!!


05-02-2012 02:10 AM #5 hd2010 (Member)

write a script to automate that even better


05-02-2012 10:02 PM #6 mojstermiha (Member)

Too bad that advertisers don’t move their asses and offer more domains or do the fu* ratings on their own. That’s the least they could do.


05-02-2012 11:44 PM #7 zeno (Administrator)

I tried to run a game once and it was yellow, I mentioned it to my AM and said they should tell the advertiser to hire people to up-vote it as it could potentially damage their business. The next week when I checked it's rating it was 95's across the board.


05-03-2012 01:45 AM #8 hd2010 (Member)

zeno : so someone get hired to vote it, turn the color to green ?


05-03-2012 01:53 AM #9 zeno (Administrator)

Pretty sure. Would be a piece of cake and cost next to nothing for an advertiser to hire someone to do it. I told my AM they should find someone on Fiverr/Elance/Freelancer/etc to do it as there was likely people there who were experienced in doing it already.


05-03-2012 01:59 AM #10 hd2010 (Member)

hate that stupid wot rating


05-03-2012 08:09 AM #11 tijn (Moderator)

Challenge with WOT is that as a new user you have little weight. Therefore auto posting bots are likely to not work. The Top 100 users have a huge weight in determining a sites ranking.

Im sure some of them in the background "sell" their services.

Read the post by dukeo -> http://dukeo.com/mywot-web-of-trust-...-totalitarism/


05-03-2012 08:31 AM #12 zeno (Administrator)

What has ended up happening with the various movements against it? I think they are owed a class-action lawsuit, the level of corruption is just ridiculous. It just needs to be based around damage to legitimate businesses rather than anything to do with affiliate-heavy offers. I can see the origins of WoT now... some guys sitting around when they suddenly think "hey, lets start a ratings website and become an authority on how trustworthy websites are. We can use the desire of people to have an opinion to build up tonnes of rankings. Then we'll deliberately skew certain sites rankings, making them lose visitors, and then offer to give them a seal of trust for money to get their ratings back in the green. Genius!"


05-03-2012 05:40 PM #13 caleb (Senior Member)

Quote Originally Posted by zeno View Post
.... they suddenly think "hey, lets start a ratings website and become an authority on how trustworthy websites are. We can use the desire of people to have an opinion to build up tonnes of rankings. Then we'll deliberately skew certain sites rankings, making them lose visitors, and then offer to give them a seal of trust for money to get their ratings back in the green. Genius!"
You know what's even more bullshit?

check it: http://www.mywot.com/en/trustseal/comparison you can buy the seal, ALL it does is show your rating on the site.

And allow you to "monitor" your rating -- so you can't even PAY to get your rating up -- it would be like paying to get your red rating shown

So you would have to get your autobots to get you green, buy the seal, then CONTINUE to get your autobots rating your site forever.


05-03-2012 10:20 PM #14 zeno (Administrator)

I think the trust seal is a little different though. And it wouldn't surprise me if people pay to have their ratings changed behind the scenes, i.e. have WoT test their site and confirm it seems fine, then slap on a green rating for $xxx. At least that's how my corrupt service would roll.


05-04-2012 05:53 AM #15 Ryan Eagle ()

MyWOT has ruined my life. It's just HORRIBLE.


05-04-2012 06:06 AM #16 hd2010 (Member)

seal my ass, fuckbook.... damn it.


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