Jotto999 comments on New Singularity.org - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Jotto999 22 June 2012 07:47:02PM *  2 points [-]

Web of Trust, a browser app designed to build a website security rating and trustworthiness oriented community, is warning me that singularity.org has untrustworthy attributes. I don't find it particularly likely that singularity.org is trying something malicious, but whatever the circumstances have been, I would like to know why this has occurred, or at least to point it out. Could be a false positive on WoT's part, or something else (I know almost nothing about web security).

If it is simply a case of WoT failing to be thorough enough in how it weighs ratings and avoiding false positives, then perhaps someone could recommend something else? I like the idea of WoT and would like to either help improve it or find a better service. EDIT: It has more ratings now and WoT no longer warns about it.

Comment author: dbaupp 23 June 2012 07:28:18AM *  0 points [-]

WoT appears to rely on users rating the website, and singularity.org would probably be a website that very few WoT users have rated (since it is a fairly niche website), so each rating has a large influence on the overall rating.

And the one comment is complaining about "Mass mailing of non-thematic Forums" (according to google translate), so that person possibly rated it low because they were annoyed by SI.

Comment author: Jotto999 23 June 2012 12:38:05PM 0 points [-]

I see. I rated it highly to try and counter it. Perhaps if a few other LWers did this it would shift the rating sufficiently. And as for me, I will not assume reliability in user-rated systems.