Ideas

Purpose of this page

The purpose of this site is to collect new ideas and group them. If they are just mentioned in the forum, they get lost after a while. The site is structured into the following sections

• New ideas, which are basically all ideas that come in
• Ideas liked by the community
• Ideas that are disliked/dismissed by community or staff
• Ideas that are considered for implementation by staff
• Ideas that have been implemented

Rules

Discussion of ideas happens in the forum. If an idea is move to another section, please add a reason to the discussion page. This is to reduce clutter.

New Ideas

WOT Forum/Wiki/Homepage

Features you would like to see added to enhance the Homepage, Forum, Wiki,...

• User Board Folders: create/rename/edit {set public vs. private]/remove - an area to organize personal notes or to "move" PM's for archiving, maybe a MAX of 3 or 5 "folders"
• Add Rhodium as a level above platinum at 25,000 possibly.
• Reputation history - discussion
• Full edit toolbar
• Extension:VideoFlv
• Recommend or prompt the new registered users to read the Wiki first
• Show page numbers at the top of forum threads, (not only at the bottom).
• Make the OP (Original Post) different on pages other than the first page (different color, background, border etc.) - discussion
• Add a "Remember thread" feature to the forum. Remembered threads should be visible on a new card on user page
• Allow users to tag threads as useful interesting, remarkable,...
• Color threads from the 3 different categories in different colors. (Purely cosmetic)
• Add a languages field to the profile to encourage people stating the languages they speak
• Add combined ratings as a further column to "My Ratings" tab to highlight differences between on rating and community ratings. Allow sorting for differences.
• Add an icon to the "My ratings tab" which shows that I have also commented a site
• Improve export by adding current community ratings to it as a further block
• Move the "Delete Account" button elsewhere. It is easy to click it when you edit the profile
• Create versions of Wiki-Pages in other languages
• Make How To Ask For Rating sticky in forum

WoT Addon/Scorecard/Rating

Features you would like to see added to enhance the WOT Add-on and rating related things

• Add a personal comment/note feature to the scorecard which is only visible to the writer
• Some sort of option to change the add-on symbol from the circle to waring shapes.
• Change where/how the icon is displayed/generated. e.g. status bar or systray. Reason: To save space especially on small netbooks
• Increase/Decrease the number of comment votes a user has based on their "ranking/level". Some spammers/scammers downvote acceptable comments, and if there are more of them than good voters then perfectly good comments are being downvoted. For example, if 20 spammers downvote all the good comments on _____.com, and there are only a few good voters, then although the site's reputation doesn't suffer, the appearance of comments does. So, maybe for each level earned, a vote should be gained (bronze = 1, silver = 2, gold = 3 etc.)
• A discreet yet distinctive separation between content and signature. - discussion
• Verified Owner - discussion. This feature mark the owner of a website, after proceeding with its formal verification, marking the comments placed and preventing the raise of the category counters on its scorecard.
• Integrate WOT ratings with OpenDNS filters.
• Show number of raters, not only reliability on scorecard
• Allow to agree/disagree with other comments with the mass rating tool. The idea behind this is that currently all mass rating comments can be easily downrated by one person
• Make my own rating visible on the scorecard. Currently, when I open a scorecard, I do not see if I have rated and in which way.
• Make the difference between ratings and comments really flashy. Currently, most users don't understand the difference. e.g. with different icons or different colors
• Age comments: Ratings already age. Implement a similar thing for comments
• Unshorten urls like those from tinyurl and show the rating of the "true" site

Ideas that are liked

Ideas that have been approved by the community are moved here

WOT Forum/Wiki/Homepage

• Add a "Request rating of my site" link/button to forum with

a field for the url/domain

a big fat reminder to read the wiki before requesting to rate.

"has a privacy policy" checkbox

"is a shop and has ToS" checkbox

no "Please choose forum" dropdown

Other useful advice(?)

Considered for implementation

Ideas that are considered for implementation by WoT staff are moved here

Discarded ideas

Ideas that didn't make it

WoT Addon/Scorecard/Rating

• Increase the necessary "minimum reliability threshold" before a site goes truly green or red.
• Remove the agreement counters for comments. It still should be possible to agree or disagree, but the counters should be removed. Use the trustlevel for ratings instead. That way, when I click agree, the trust level could be taken into account and put as a length increase/decrease into the bar.
• Enforce rookie users to write a comment when rating.