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I have used WOT for some time and have found warnings for sites which I know are OK. The warnings seem to be prevalent against a particular political or religious slant although I suppose if I were of the opposite persuasion and went to those sites it might be the same there. Even technical and ratings/review sites are warned about which I have gone to anyway and they’ve been fine. It’s getting to the point that I’m not trusting WOT so much any more because the ratings seem to be selected by personal preference rather than objectively.

I am pretty paranoid about these types of things so taking a warning lightly by is a big deal for me.

I agree with much of what you said. I still use WOT–but with a grain of salt. Sometimes I suspect that positive ratings (or comments) are given to unsafe sites by the website owners, employees, etc., and bad ratings and comments are given to safe sites by competitors, people of opposing beliefs, etc. When I see ratings on sites that I know are not true, I do take the time to submit my own rating and I state why I gave that specific rating. I also add that WOT is only reliable if the ratings are accurate, so WOT needs to do their part and confirm site ratings; because if they’re not reliable, WOT will cease to be useful to anyone. They also need to ban users who give false ratings. I’m sure they will find these users giving poor ratings to similar sites, which should help identify them easily.