Is McAfee's siteadvisor.com a scam?

Re:Is McAfee's siteadvisor.com a scam? by microarchitect on Sunday April 03, 2011 @02:54AM (#2402022)

  The second problem is that there are many obvious people 
  gaming the community review system. I saw one reviewer, 
  with a 9/9 reputation rating, that was reviewing thousands 
  of sites a day. I suspect that there were many more shill 
  accounts participating in this.

Yup. Here are their top 3 reviewers:

  * pharmalert: http://user.siteadvisor.com/forums/member.php?u=19138 with 1400 posts per day.
  * Nodes: http://user.siteadvisor.com/forums/member.php?u=107161 with 750 posts per day.
  * DougW: http://user.siteadvisor.com/forums/member.php?u=1699 with 451 posts per day.

For me this is a pretty solid indicator that their review system is, at best, useless.

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Re:Is McAfee's siteadvisor.com a scam? by tzs on Sunday April 03, 2011 @03:38AM (#2402082)

Thanks. Pharmalert was the reviewer I was thinking of. "He" has posted 2359030 reviews since 2006-08-24.

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