WOT Services Ltd

For a Finnish company, this is completely bogus. How can people fall for this? Web of Trust, yeah right. Web of Turd is more like it. Well, just as soon as I looked up FeministFrequency.com from their website, the site rating is rigged possibly by multiple accounts of the same user. I am sure feminists and the web of turd users are the real trolls here, not anybody else. My posts get thumbs down quick and I had to delete 'em. SiteJabber and Trust My Web are all I have. It is hilariously pathetic that MyWOT is trusted by their own community from the site rating, all 95/100. Seriously? The only best way to not trust WOT services is to DELETE YOUR ACCOUNT. You can simply delete it in your profile settings from the MyWOT forums.

If anybody opposes my opinion seriously, I pity you and feel sorry for you, so sorry that you're here to conform like therapists and money-making politicians. It's best to stay away from the WOT services. I thought Finland has a clean government, but in reality, the country has a long way to go. The Finnish government cannot get rid of this mess indefinitely. The WOT services is corrupted as JP Morgan and Microsoft. Whatever you do, just don't trust MyWOT. Feel free to spit on their company's floor because we really need to get them off our internet. 1 out of 5 stars.

Yes, I had an attack of malware on my site Net411.com.
Yes, I was happy someone brought it to my attention
Yes, mywot.com had a red circle by my site.
Yes, I went to Google for help in clearing my site.
Yes, I got my site cleared by Google.com

No, mywot.com did not take their red circle from beside my site.
No, mywot.com did not pay any attention to my pleas of removing my site from their red circle list.
No, I do not use mywot.com any longer.
No, I do not trust mywot.com to protect me.
Yes, I feel sorry for the 70, ooo, ooo. Downloaded mywot.com users.

MYWOT has now been shown to BUY FACEBOOK likes from two suppliers online.

MYWOT, a small company who has recently been caught buying Facebook likes from two suppliers online has had 24% of their likes removed by FACEBOOK.

Facebook also has since removed MYWOT as a partner due to unscrupulous activities found to be " not trustworthy" by Facebook executives.
" The decision to cancel our relationship with MYWOT is unfortunate, however, Facebook has found evidence of manipulation of companies on the MYWOT system. Facebook acknowledges that MYWOT has a open forum rated by internet peers, however the ranking system has substantial flaws. " Google executive Matt Cohler states.
Matt Cohler continues to state that " Facebook will be more careful in the future in regards to partnerig with companies such as MYWOT."

MYWOT has been falling in popularity over the past 12 months as more and more and more users realize that their rating system is systematically flawed.

This website manipulates ratings. The idea behind the project is nice but the fact that any user can click on green or red button to rank is VERY bad. The user rating the site is not even a customer so basically it makes no sense they should be able rate "Vendor reliability". Also their child safety rating makes no sense since i have seen sites with poor child safety but the site clearly states no service for children
mywot.com is a SCAM

1) Mass rating system. One platinum member can turn a website reputation down from Green to RED!. People rating websites are not customers to write reviews.

2) Some users attack businesses to sell back the Green (good) reputation to that business at a fee.

3) No customer service to complain the fraud.

4) Rude staff when you report the problems to them

5) Any one rate MyWOT on their own website scoreboard will get banned from their website and the comment will be removed. Serious ethical issue.

The site markets it self as a fair place for websites to be reviewed. Well, I'm afraid that this aint the case!

The site offers a top 10 reviewers table, which has resulted in huge amounts of negative reviews, on perfectly safe sites.

Their customer service is non-the-better, and they often reply with the default 'please resolve this issue with the reviewer'

Most of the reviews on there are untrue, and shouldn't be trusted.

In short: Stay well away from MyWoT

Mywot is abused by people who scour the internet looking for worldviews that they disagree with. One of their regulars told me that I was a quack for teaching meditation and that he should have given me all red flags, but he "was in a good mood." So, he gave me yellow ratings which means that I might be ripping off old ladies and hijacking their bank accounts. He also bragged about taking down an antivaccination website and a creationism site because of their views. This is a widespread practice in Web of Trust. All you need to do is look at their forum conversations, and you'll see that these people are taking down anyone who says anything that disagrees with them. I only found out about the site because a woman refused to turn in an article she specifically wrote for my blog because she was getting red flags. I spend hours contacting customers who could hopefully fix the problem. Read this Complaints Board complaint: http://www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/web-of-trust-mywotcom-web-of-trust-consumer-protection-or-religious-warfare-c*******.html

LOADS COOKIES AND SPYWARE AUTOMATICALLY IF YOU VISIT

Clean out all memory caches and up your security, then visit site and you will see it tries to download files to your compuer with no explanation, unlike other sites that tell you what they are doing. EVIL MONEY MAKING SCHEME, INTERNET EXTORTION AND BLACKMAIL

One of their spammers loaded my sites and there is no recourse.
DO NOT SEND FRIENDS TO RATE YOU
That is their scam. Then they load themselves in their browser without permission or warning.

http://www.mywot.info for the real scoop.

www.mywot.info

I have been both a follower (feeling like I am being protected) and a victim of WOT.

I am a domainer, and invariably WOT red cards any site that I put up, wether the site is merely informational, declaring that 'we are coming soon.' or just launched, it seems to get socked with ratings that are without comments. Not once have I had any spyware, hooks, or even allowed memberships to these sites. Hence, they are 'do no harm entities' that are usually in the process of being fully built.

My observation is that WOT cross sells 'internet safety products' to nervous web surfers.

I am a MyWOT contributor for a looong time and often rate sites there. I can't see any big problems there. There are a few minor problems like scammers rate their own site positive. And of course there are some false negatives too.

If YOUR site has a wrong bad rating you should contact those who gave you the rating and ask them to reconsider, specially if your site had some violations that you corrected.

You can also go to their forum and post your site in the 'site owners' category.

I wish I could give a rating of ZERO stars.

I have had horrible experience with this site.

If by chance your site gets a poor rating on their system there is little to no fixing it.

It doesn't matter if you register and rate your own site. You have to take days of rating other sites first, and you have to agree with the WOT community when rating them. Then once you have established a rating history with them, then your ratings that differ with theirs "start" to count.
The ratings are weighted, read it in their own FAQ section. WOT users that have rated more sites carry more weight with their ratings.
The worst part is, if your site has a poor rating, and you post it to your Facebook page, your link won't redirect to your site. It gets a warning from Facebook that was created by their "trusted" partner myWOT and warns you to not visit the site.
If it weren't the affiliation with Facebook, I wouldn't care or even know about myWOT.

From what I have seen the top users of myWOT create forums directing people to give poor ratings to sites of people they don't like. The ratings are given without any regard to whether a site is safe or not. What's worse, one of the remedies that myWOT offers is to PURCHASE their Web Of Trust seal to attempt to raise your ratings. Which leads to the question... is there compensation given to the top users of myWOT for rating so many sites with a poor rating?