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Offline brickbatz

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Has WOT gone mad?
« on: September 19, 2012, 02:43:20 PM »
The Firefox add-on WOT, the Web Of Trust gives this site a [Very Poor] rating.


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Re: Has WOT gone mad?
« Reply #1 on: September 19, 2012, 02:53:55 PM »
Seems it's due to Dareks67' solitary, and inaccurate suggestion that we are a phishing site.

I'll send Dweez after him.
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Re: Has WOT gone mad?
« Reply #2 on: September 19, 2012, 03:17:10 PM »
What a total bunch of crap.

http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/diasfora.co.uk/comment-49984581#comment-49984581
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    Dareks67 09/19/2012

    Phishing or other scams

This website is classified as a phishing website.
It is associated with attempts to acquire sensitive information such as user names, passwords and credit card
details by masquerading as a trustworthy entity.
You should not enter confidential information on this website.
http://www.phishtank.com/index.php

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Re: Has WOT gone mad?
« Reply #3 on: September 19, 2012, 04:19:58 PM »
This post on Mozilla has someone not being too happy with WOT and a possible way of resolving it?

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by TGWarez on September 14, 2012 · permalink

The service is completely inaccurate, and open for abuse by everybody.

There must be a system in place to take over this major shortcoming or otherwise this addon is a fail.
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (20120827).

by WOT Services (Developer) on September 14, 2012 · permalink

Our reputations tell you how much people trust websites and the rating system is highly resistant against manipulation, which is probably why you decided to post here instead. You can learn more from our FAQ:

http://www.mywot.com/wiki/FAQ#Reputations_are_easy_to_manipulate

If you feel a specific website has been rated unfairly, here's what you can do:

http://www.mywot.com/faq/website/reputation-problems#misrated
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Re: Has WOT gone mad?
« Reply #4 on: September 20, 2012, 12:20:27 AM »
Google Chrome FTW.
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Re: Has WOT gone mad?
« Reply #5 on: September 20, 2012, 02:05:40 AM »
I'm shocked.
Trouble is i never have any money left on my credit card . ;D ;D
My password would get you on Diasfora only  as well.
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Re: Has WOT gone mad?
« Reply #6 on: September 20, 2012, 04:52:31 AM »
Quote from: 6pairsofshoes on September 20, 2012, 12:20:27 AM
Google Chrome FTW.
No thanks, Chrome won't protect you from malicious sites any more than Firefox. WOT isn't built into Firefox, it's a third party add-on. Now I'm wondering how many of the sites I shied away from, because of a warning, were in fact good sites.
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Re: Has WOT gone mad?
« Reply #7 on: September 20, 2012, 05:50:18 AM »
Quote from: goldshirt*9 on September 20, 2012, 02:05:40 AM
Trouble is i never have any money left on my credit card . ;D ;D

That's not important. smokester would hack you for booze though.  ;D
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Re: Has WOT gone mad?
« Reply #8 on: September 20, 2012, 01:15:28 PM »
well, for what it's worth, i've re-rated it (though didn't add a comment)  :-\
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Re: Has WOT gone mad?
« Reply #9 on: September 20, 2012, 02:49:28 PM »
The phishtank website the comment posted says it's a few directories in "www.diasfora.co.uk" (/themes/core/... etc.).
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Re: Has WOT gone mad?
« Reply #10 on: September 20, 2012, 07:04:47 PM »
Quote from: chekovsulu on September 20, 2012, 02:49:28 PM
The phishtank website the comment posted says it's a few directories in "www.diasfora.co.uk" (/themes/core/... etc.).

It's also saying the suspect file cannot be found.  I wish it'd make its mind up.
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Re: Has WOT gone mad?
« Reply #11 on: September 20, 2012, 07:11:11 PM »
I checked and there was a hangover folder from a hack we had a while back that'd been emptied.  Perhaps it had that cached.

We're firewalled now anyway.
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Re: Has WOT gone mad?
« Reply #12 on: September 20, 2012, 11:33:34 PM »
I hate how booze just vanishes.

Might I suggest a thread title change? ( Diasfora slandered by Firefox Add-on "WOT")

or is this section spider blocked? I think it'd be neat to shake things up through the venue of Google.
« Last Edit: September 20, 2012, 11:35:17 PM by 8ullfrog »
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Re: Has WOT gone mad?
« Reply #13 on: September 21, 2012, 12:54:10 AM »
haha, you thought i was kiddin.
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Re: Has WOT gone mad?
« Reply #14 on: September 21, 2012, 02:30:54 AM »
Quote from: 8ullfrog on September 20, 2012, 11:33:34 PM
I hate how booze just vanishes.

Might I suggest a thread title change? ( Diasfora slandered by Firefox Add-on "WOT")

or is this section spider blocked? I think it'd be neat to shake things up through the venue of Google.

Even better, I've made it the news so not only can this thread be spidered (it's public), but in a while your suggestion should come up as the site/index page description.
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