MyWOT part 2 - the results
I am using mywot for couple of days, and I would say I kind of like it, though its not something unexpected. Sure, I am happy, that most of sites belonging to firms I work with do well.
My main concern was that community-driven opinions might be incorrect regards some of the product vendors due to popular opinion and not facts. This still remains true. WOT still votes out some of the commercial sites that have low reputation in non-commercial or competitor/managed communities in security field. Some of relatively good product vendors still suffer for their former actions and public opinion years after they corrected (more or less) their behavior. Well, nothing surprising.
The good thing is nice warning system I use both for avoiding bad sites and looking for them when I want to spot new threats. I like search result enhancement the most, and it helps me distinguishing sites I need when I browse security related search results.
What would improve MyWot? Here are my thoughts:
1. Allow user to browse site without warnings WHEN he is on it. Its quite annoying to close warning screen on each page. Or give an option "this session only" to disable the screen.
2. More consistency on what are good sites and bad sites, some guidelines as different people rate same level sites quite differently. To confirm this, I checked couple of poker rooms, rated quite high in industry (ratings from poker works room ratings ) . The WOT ratings vary from very bad, to good although these rooms provide more or less same level of service, and I have not heard any specific complaints on the bad rated ones. Interesting enough, best ratings are for rooms that DO NOT complies with UIGEA, which prohibits accepting money from
